[Users] template source always "Blank"

[Itamar Heim]

On 12/10/2012 10:54 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
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> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com
> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     That _is_ what I did!
>
>     Hmm. Makes it an external process to track VM lineage without that
>     data.
>
>     So use the thin-provision only to allow this tracking. And this
>     works with windows VMs? will test shortly.
>
>
> Yay! New VM from template works fine and much faster. So the default for
> servers is to clone but the desktops is to thin-provision.
>
> As all of my "servers" are used more like desktops (bug testing not
> actually being servers), other than the icon change and thin vs clone
> disk provisioning, what else should I expeect to be different?

it is just the default, so you can choose servers and use thin.
differences between desktops/servers (of the top of my head):
these are just defaults you can change:
- default display for servers is vnc, spice for desktops
- servers clone. desktop are thin provision

these are not currently configurable (but will probably be in a future 
version):
- servers get not audio card
- servers get the HA option

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>     On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
>     <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>         On 12/09/2012 07:28 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
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>             Greetings,
>
>             I've built several new templates from the blank template and
>             a ISO
>             install of various OS's. However, when I built a new VM
>             using the new
>             template(s), the new VM still says it's based from the blank
>             template. I
>             expected it to say it was from the "template-foo" U
>             specified. The VM is
>             correctly built from the template so I think it's a
>             generation/database
>             issue.
>
>
>         I'm guessing you used 'clone' (default for new server) rather
>         than 'thinly provisioned' (default for new desktop).
>         clone means the template disk is copied/cloned for better
>         performance, rather than COW (less space).
>         when the disk is cloned, there is no longer a relation to the
>         original template at storage level.
>
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