On 07/11/2012 05:06 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
On 07/11/2012 09:08 AM, Shu Ming wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I created a VM with from existing template and found that the image of
> the new VM actually copied the image from the template instead of
> sharing a base from the template. I am wondering why the new VM
> doesn't use a new cow image as its image pointing to the base image in
> template. By that way, all the new VMs will share a common parent
> image in template and save the space in the storage domain. Is there
> any other concern not to do this?
>
Under Resource Allocation did you use Thin or Clone when creating the VM
from template? Thin will share the base and just use a cow image. Clone
will copy the VM.
note: the default resource allocation for a server is clone and for a
desktop is thin.