[ovirt-users] How to use virt-sysprep

[Joel Diaz]

Done. Thanks!

On May 20, 2017 10:31 AM, "Arik Hadas" <ahadas at redhat.com> wrote:

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