[Users] actual disk size of vm via api

[Sven Kieske]

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I know there are 2 ways to create the new vm.
I specifically looked at the size to determine
if I used the correct rest api call.

To answer your question:
I did a full clone of the copy.
and this worked correct, as far as I can tell.
I looked at the actual folders, in the storage
domain, and there is a (sparse) copy of the template
and an additional file. It seems the difference
between the copy of the template and the actual vm
content are written to this file, and the size of
this file seems to be reported via the "actual size"
field in the rest api.

my question is, if there is a field, which reports
the complete size of the vm (copy of the template and
diff file).

If there is none, I would file a bug or rfe for this.

Thank you so far!
(replying via private mail as I'm out of office)


On 12.02.2014 17:33, Gadi Ickowicz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There are 2 different ways to create a vm from a template: * thin *
> clone
> 
> If you create a vm that is a thin-copy of a template, it works like
> a snapshot, creating a new volume on top of the template's disk. If
> you create a vm that is a full clone then you clone the whole disk
> image.
> 
> did you created a thin-copy of the template?
> 
> Gadi Ickowicz

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