[Users] Templates and originating VM relationship

[Gianluca Cecchi]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:41 PM, René Koch (ovido)  wrote:

> Unlike Vmware (which converts a vm into a template) RHEV/oVirt is
> copying the vm into a template.
>
> So you can remove or edit your original vm without having an impact on
> your template.

OK.
So the note in Procedure 9.1 at page 162 of RHEV 3.1 admin guide is
not correct....


> More important is the template provisioning method when creating vms
> from your template. If you choose Thin, only changes between your
> template and your vm are written to your vms disk file, where clone
> creates a clone of your template's disk. Template thin provisioning
> saves disk space, but you can't delete the template as long as you don't
> delete all vms linked to this template.

This was clear to me based on manual contents, but thanks for the remainder.

Gianluca