[ovirt-users] How to use virt-sysprep

[Arik Hadas]

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Joel Diaz <mrjoeldiaz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Arik,
>
> After adding the snapshot repo, and updating the engine, I now see the
> seal option.
>

Great. Note that you probably need to update the hosts with the snapshot
repository as well for this operation to work.


>
> Thanks again,
>
> Joel
>
>
>
> On May 19, 2017 1:07 PM, "Arik Hadas" <ahadas at redhat.com> wrote:
>
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>> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 7:22 PM, Joel Diaz <mrjoeldiaz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I ran yum update on my three host and the engine VM so I believe an up
>>> to date on all the packages. How can I check if I am on version 4.1.2?
>>>
>>
>> You can find the engine's version in the 'About' dialog (at the top-right
>> corner of the screen of the webadmin). If you don't use the
>> 'ovirt-4.1-snapshot' repository then it makes sense that you didn't get
>> this update yet.
>>
>>
>>> I restarted the httpd and ovirt-engine service after the updates, but
>>> still don't the seal option.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> On May 19, 2017 11:49 AM, "Arik Hadas" <ahadas at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Joel Diaz <mrjoeldiaz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Arik,
>>>>
>>>> Very cool. It's exactly what I was looking for.
>>>>
>>>> However, I don't see that checkbox. I've attached an image of what the
>>>> template window looks like on my end. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No , you're looking at the right place. This feature got in pretty late
>>> in the release cycle of 4.1, so it is available from 4.1.2. Maybe the
>>> version you are using is lower than that?
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the response,
>>>>
>>>> On May 18, 2017 12:29 PM, "Arik Hadas" <ahadas at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto <
>>>>> lorenzetto.luca at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Joel,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> as far as i know, virt-sysprep has to be executed inside the VM before
>>>>>> cloning it to template. This removes some infos from the VM like udev
>>>>>> rules & ssh keys.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> So this has changed in 4.1. You can now choose to seal a template
>>>>> during its creation. This will take a VM, that may have not been sealed,
>>>>> create a template out of it and then invoke virt-sysprep on the template's
>>>>> disks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Joel, in the 'make template' dialog you'll see a checkbox (at the
>>>>> bottom) for 'Seal Template' that will do the trick. There is also a 'seal'
>>>>> parameter in the REST-API, of course [1].
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-api-model/blob/mas
>>>>> ter/src/main/java/services/TemplatesService.java#L168
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Luca
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Joel Diaz <mrjoeldiaz at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> > Good afternoon ovirt users,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I'm new to ovirt. I've created templates in the past using this
>>>>>> guide,
>>>>>> > https://github.com/rharmonson/richtech/wiki/CentOS-7-1511-Mi
>>>>>> nimal-oVirt-Template
>>>>>> > .
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I was going over the list of features and stumbled on to
>>>>>> virt-sysprep.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/vir
>>>>>> t-sysprep/
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >  http://libguestfs.org/virt-sysprep.1.html
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > How can I use virt-sysprep from within ovirt to create templates?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Thank you for your help,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Joel
>>>>>> >
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>>>>>> > Joel
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
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>>>>>>
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