[Users] user can not create a snapshot

[Ofri Masad]

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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