[Users] user can not create a snapshot

Andrej Bagon andrej.bagon at arnes.si
Thu Jun 13 03:05:48 EDT 2013


Will it be backported to 3.2 (like in 3.2.3)? What is on the other hand
roadmap for release for 3.3?

Andrej

On 06/12/2013 04:38 PM, Ofri Masad wrote:
> Hi Andrej
>
> thank you very much for the feedback.
> this bug was fixed for oVirt 3.3 (http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/12618/)
>
>
> thanks,
> Ofri
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Andrej Bagon" <andrej.bagon at arnes.si>
>> To: "Ofri Masad" <omasad at redhat.com>
>> Cc: "Allon Mureinik" <amureini at redhat.com>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 4:53:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Users] user can not create a snapshot
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> we are using Centos6.4 withoVirt Engine Version: 3.2.2-1.1.el6. We
>> created a VM in admin portal, installed centos6 minimal and created a
>> template. The template has a thin provisioned disk. The disk is shared
>> to everyone.
>> Then as a user in the frontend portal (user has quota, and vmcreator
>> permisions on datacenter) we create a server with this template - in the
>> resources tab we have to check thin for template provisioning (on clone
>> we get a permission denied), and the user quota is selected ok for the
>> user. When the VM is created, we check in the admin backend, we see that
>> the disk quota is not right, but is the quota from the template. If we
>> change the disk quota to the user, he can then make clones, his quota is
>> reported right and everything works as expected.
>>
>> Andrej
>>
>> On 06/12/2013 03:42 PM, Ofri Masad wrote:
>>> Hi Andrej,
>>>
>>> Actually, we haven't been able to reproduce this bug.
>>> Could you please give me some details:
>>>  - what version are you using?
>>>  - do you create a thin provision disk from template or a clone?
>>>  - do you have only one disk on the template or many?
>>>  - when creating a vm from template, do you assign same quota to the VM and
>>>  the disks or a different one?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ofri
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Andrej Bagon" <andrej.bagon at arnes.si>
>>>> To: "Allon Mureinik" <amureini at redhat.com>
>>>> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 3:42:09 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Users] user can not create a snapshot
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I digged into the problem and the user has the UserVmManager privileges on
>>>> the VM. The problem must be with the creation of the VM from template,
>>>> where
>>>> the userfrontend does not assign the right quota to the disk when creating
>>>> a
>>>> vm from template. This was also notified by Jure in the "[Users] Disk
>>>> quota
>>>> and templates bug?" thread.
>>>>
>>>> If I assign the right dick quota to the user (his quota) the snapshoting
>>>> works.
>>>>
>>>> We will wait for the fix on the create vm from template disk quota fix.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> On 06/11/2013 04:00 PM, Allon Mureinik wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The required action group is MANIPULATE_VM_SNAPSHOTS.
>>>> It can be found in the roles UserVmManager, SuperUser, ClusterAdmin and
>>>> DataCenterAdmin.
>>>>
>>>> If that does not do the trick - check the user's quota - maybe he's out.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: "Andrej Bagon" <andrej.bagon at arnes.si>
>>>> To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>>>> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 1:08:13 PM
>>>> Subject: [Users] user can not create a snapshot
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have a user with VmCreator rights in the datacenter. He can create,
>>>> edit,
>>>> manipulate his own virtual macihnes, but he can not add a snapshot to his
>>>> own virtual machines. What rights do I have to give him also, so he can
>>>> have
>>>> the snapshot functionality as well? Right now he does get a " Error while
>>>> executing action: User is not authorized to perform this action." message.
>>>> The Virtual machine is powered down at the time of taking a snapshot.
>>>>
>>>> Thank You.
>>>>
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