<div dir="ltr"><div>Answer inline</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 1:09 AM, Gianluca Cecchi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail-"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Elad Ben Aharon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ebenahar@redhat.com" target="_blank">ebenahar@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Gianluca, <div><br></div><div>If you don't have a copy of the template disk on ST2 it means that the VMs were created as deep copy from the template (i.e, they are independent - you can check it in the the 'general' VM sub-tab).</div><div><br></div><div>If this is the case then you won't have any problem with detaching ST2.</div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">thanks for reply.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In "general" sub-tab I see<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Template: my_template_name (Clone/Independent)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So I should be ok.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Indeed.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra">But for example I can have ST1 and ST2, create a template with disk in ST1, then a VM from this template again in ST1 and in a second time move the disk of this VM to ST2<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In this case what would happen?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>VM creation from a template on a storage domain that doesn't have a copy of the template disk can be performed only as deep copy (Clone/Independent). It means that the VM doesn't have any dependency on the template. So you will be able to detach the domain where the VM disk resides.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Is it in this screen when I create a VM that it is decided if deep copy or not as you wrote?<br><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mvdTJMdkNTeF84ckk/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/<wbr>d/<wbr>0BwoPbcrMv8mvdTJMdkNTeF84ckk/<wbr>view?usp=sharing</a></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">What would happen in case I choose "Thin" and not "Clone" in storage allocation part of resource allocation section in the image?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>'Thin' means that the VM disk is created as a 'leaf' volume linked to the template disk. It requires the template disk to reside on the storage domain you desire to create the VM disk on. In order to be able to create it in this way you'll first have to copy the template disk to the other storage domain.</div><div> <br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra">Also, I noticed that if I create a VM from the blank template the Thin option is checked and both Thin and Clone are greyed out so I cannot change it<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br>Yes, 'Blank' is the default template in the system, clone or thin in this case are not relevant since 'Blank' is just a set of default VM configurations with no disks.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra">Instead if I choose my template, the "Clone" option is marked as default, but I can change to Clone....<span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div>Check out <a href="http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/vmm-guide/chap-Templates/">ovirt-templates</a></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra">Gianluca<br></div></font></span></div>
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