[Users] Unable to Remove Template, if VM exists.

[Tejesh M]

Thanks alot.


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Karli Sjöberg <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>wrote:

> On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 11:52 +0530, Tejesh M wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >
> > I'm not able to Delete Template, if the VM is exists which is deployed
> > from that Template. How can i delete Template leaving the VM as is?
> >
> >
> > Thanks & Regards,
> >
> > Tejesh
> >
>
> In case you aren´t aware, oVirt actually does that for a very good
> reason. This way you can create _1_ template, then create _1000_ VM's,
> and they´ll only take up the space of that single template, and then
> build up on the changes that are "new" for each VM.
>
> If you want to be able to still delete a template, I suggest you choose
> to provision new VM's "cloned" from that template, instead of "thin".
> You can however just rename it to something else like
> "deprecated_template01" and leave it like that.
>
> Otherwise your only option is to create a new disk for that VM, start it
> up from a Live-CD and "dd" the operating disk over onto the new, then
> delete the old disk, perhaps rename the new disk from "_Disk2" to
> "_Disk1" instead and remember to mark it "Bootable". Repeat this process
> for every VM that is thin provisioned from this template and then you
> can finally delete the template.
>
>
>
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Thanks & Regards
Tejesh
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