[ovirt-users] Template Clone/Independent vs Thin/Dependent

[Juan Hernandez]

On 10/23/2014 05:11 AM, Shanil S wrote:
> Hi Juan,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> We are using the storage glusterfs-3.5.1-1.el6.
> 

I can't reproduce this, not even with the same storage that you used.
Can you please try with the simple script that I suggested in the
previous message and report the results?

> 
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Juan Hernandez <jhernand at redhat.com
> <mailto:jhernand at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 10/22/2014 09:38 AM, Shanil S wrote:
>     >  Hi,
>     >
>     > I am using the ovirt 3.5 and when i create VM from the template
>     through
>     > Ovirt web portal, it displays Template is "Clone/Independent"but with
>     > the same template When i create through REST API, it shows
>     > "Thin/Dependent"...
>     >
>     > I Found one email thread (
>     > https://www.mail-archive.com/users@ovirt.org/msg21271.html ) from the
>     > community for the same issue but even using their method still it
>     > display the same "Thin/Dependent".
>     >
>     > I am using the following xml :-
>     >
>     > <vm>
>     >  <name>$name</name>
>     >    <cluster>
>     >      <name>phase1</name>
>     >    </cluster>
>     >    <cpu>
>     >         <topology cores='$core' sockets='$socket'/>
>     >       </cpu>
>     >    <memory>$memory</memory>
>     >    <template>
>     >      <name>$templatetype</name>
>     >    </template>
>     >   <disks>
>     >       <clone>true</clone>
>     >    </disks>
>     > </vm>
>     >
>     > I have attached the screen shots , please check it.
>     >
> 
>     Your XML looks correct. I used it in my 3.5 environment and it works
>     correctly, creating "Clone/Independent" virtual machines.
> 
>     What kind of storage are you using? NFS?
> 
>     Can you try the following script and report the results?
> 
>     #!/bin/sh -ex
> 
>     url="https://engine.example.com/ovirt-engine/api";
>     user="admin at internal"
>     password="******"
> 
>     curl \
>     --verbose \
>     --insecure \
>     --request POST \
>     --user "${user}:${password}" \
>     --header "Content-Type: application/xml" \
>     --header "Accept: application/xml" \
>     --data "
>     <vm>
>       <name>myvm</name>
>       <cluster>
>         <name>mycluster</name>
>       </cluster>
>       <template>
>         <name>mytemplate</name>
>       </template>
>       <disks>
>         <clone>true</clone>
>       </disks>
>     </vm>
>     " \
>     "${url}/vms"
> 
> 

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