[Users] user can not create a snapshot

Doron Fediuck dfediuck at redhat.com
Thu Jun 13 08:23:12 UTC 2013


Hi Adrej,
Release plan for 3.3 can be found here: 
http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3_release-management#Timeline

No current plans for 3.2.3 as far as I know.

Doron.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrej Bagon" <andrej.bagon at arnes.si>
> To: "Ofri Masad" <omasad at redhat.com>
> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:05:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] user can not create a snapshot
> 
> 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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