[Users] Do I really have to use ISO uploader?

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/24/2013 05:19 AM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
> Agreed. Many of us already have an existing directory of ISOs which is
> NFS-shared, (I created mine while using VirtualBox for several years)
> and would simply like to use it.
>
> This is an issue which is on the To-Do list, but unfortunately didn't
> make the first cut for 3.3.2 recently.
>
>  From what I understand, it should not be terribly difficult to change
> oVirt to utilize it. I believe it was Itamar who previously described a
> way on IRC to use symlinks to refer to existing ISOs.
>
> It seems like most of the competition allows a VM to access any file
> path for an ISO, rather than having to copy it into a storage domain
> first. That would be much preferable in my opinion.

indeed.
if someone can write a helper script to re-map a regular iso store as a 
storage domain, i think would help as a srop gap - should be simple.

>
> -Bob
>
> On 11/23/2013 10:09 PM, Blaster wrote:
>> I’m trying to move from ESXi to KVM/OVIRT.   To attach an ISO to a
>> CDROM under ESXi, I just have to add the NFS share with all my ISOs,
>> then go to the CDROM and attach one of the ISO images and away I go.
>>
>> Under OVIRT, it seems like I have to create yet another datastore, use
>> engine-iso-upload which will create yet another copy of the ISO,
>> before I can attach it to a virtual CD device.
>>
>> Please tell me I missed something in my hours of searching that this
>> isn’t true, that I don’t really have to duplicate each ISO that I
>> already have on a NAS NFS share, to yet another copy that OVIRT can use.
>>
>> There also doesn’t seem to be a nice way to take a disk image and
>> simply click “add to inventory” like I can with ESXi, that I have to
>> use image uploader to create yet another copy of the image and wait
>> for it to copy a 100G file before I can create a VM out of it.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions on making this process easier.
>>
>>
>>
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