[Users] mislabelled template source

[Itamar Heim]

On 12/12/2012 08:01 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Eli Mesika <emesika at redhat.com
> <mailto:emesika at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     <snip>
>      >
>      > Yes. I used the web admin gui.
>
>     can you try to browse to
>     http[s]://<ip>:<port>/api/vms
>
>     Look at the result and see if you got the same from the API to
>     figure out if this is a UI issue
>
> According to api/vms, everything of type server was built using
> <template href="/api/templates/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
> id="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"/>
> while all desktop types show the correct template (or at least a
> template ID that's not "blank").
>
>
> Usual process: from a blank template - install OS (windows/linux) from
> iso. Save that vm as <os>_raw template once agent tools loaded (no OS
> patches applied). Use the <os>_raw template to build a new VM which gets
> all current patches. Save that as a new template.
>
> so far, no VM shows a heritage other than "blank" if it was built with a
> preallocated drive space from a template other than blank.

that's "by design". once you clone the template (pre-allocated rather 
than thinly provisioned), there is no relation to the original template 
(it can be deleted, etc.)