[ovirt-users] How to change a pool's template

[Omer Frenkel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "René Koch" <rkoch at linuxland.at>
> To: "Omer Frenkel" <ofrenkel at redhat.com>
> Cc: "John Xue" <xgxjohn at gmail.com>, users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 4:33:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] How to change a pool's template
> 
> On 06/12/2014 08:58 AM, Omer Frenkel wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "John Xue" <xgxjohn at gmail.com>
> >> To: users at ovirt.org
> >> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 7:03:22 AM
> >> Subject: [ovirt-users]  How to change a pool's template
> >>
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> I'm a new guy in ovirt 3.3.5, I try to change a pool's template. When
> >> I edit the pool, the option "Based of Template" is gay. How to do
> >> that? I don't want to delete and rebuild again.
> >>
> >
> > you cannot change pool's template, because it means replacing all the disks
> > for all the vms in the pool,
> > which is basically the same as removing the pool and creating a new one.
> >
> > but, you can do something similar in 3.4, using template versions:
> > in 3.4, when you create the pool, you can select a template and LATEST as
> > the version.
> > when you create a new template, you can make it a version of the original
> > template,
> > and the pool will update to this template.
> 
> I tried this features with oVirt 3.4.1, but it didn't work as expected.
> 
> When selecting latest and a guest is shut down it will be deleted.
> The expected behavior would be that a new vm with the newest version of
> this template (latest subtemplate) would be started.
> 
> The actual behavior is the following: VM will be deleted, pool is
> decreased by 1 vm and vm is started as a standalone (desktop) vm.
> 
> So the whole pool features is broken when using latest template feature
> (in 3.4.1 - didn't test it with 3.4.2 yet).
> 

thanks for reporting,
i've just merged a fix to master

http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/28861/

> 
> Regards,
> René
> 
> 
> > you can read about it here
> > http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Template_Versions
> >
> >> Thank you!
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> John Xue
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