[Users] oVirt 3.5 planning

[Federico Alberto Sayd]

On 20/03/14 20:00, Federico Simoncelli wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
>> To: "Federico Alberto Sayd" <fsayd at uncu.edu.ar>, users at ovirt.org, "Federico Simoncelli" <fsimonce at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 6:47:14 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Users] oVirt 3.5 planning
>>
>> On 03/20/2014 07:30 PM, Federico Alberto Sayd wrote:
>>> 3 - Another question, when you convert a VM to template I see that it is
>>> created with preallocated disk even if the original VM had thinly
>>> provisioned disk. Is there no way to make the template with the same
>>> type of disk (thinly provisioned)??
>> on NFS - it doesn't matter.
>> on block storage - i don't remember why. maybe federico remembers.
> It was for performance reasons since on block it would result in a qcow2
> image. We wanted the access to the template to be as fast as possible.
>
> The same question was brought up few months ago when we discussed importing
> images from glance as templates. Anyway in that case we decided (for simplicity)
> to allow the import as template also for qcow2 images.
>
Ok, thank you both for the clarification

Federico