[one-users] Disk image type not propagated by saveas

[Florin Antonescu]

I am also seeing this behavior in OpenNebula 2.9.80 (of not propagating the
qcow2 driver attribute) and I think it is a bug. Are there any plans of
changing this in the final version of OpenNebula 3.0?

Best regards,
Florian

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Tino Vazquez <tinova at opennebula.org> wrote:

> Dear Rob,
>
> The "raw" disk type attribute is being pulled from the default, which
> is set in /etc/one/vmm_exec/vmm_exec_kvm.conf  (in OpenNebula 3.0
> Beta1, in OpenNebula 2.2 is /etc/one/vmm_kvm/vmm_kvm.conf IIRC).
>
> Which version of OpenNebula are you using? In 3.0, you can update the
> image template to add the type parameter, using "oneimage update".
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> -Tino
>
> --
> Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
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>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Robert Parrott
> <parrott at seas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > After fixing an older issue with the "onevm saveas" command, I'm
> > seeing the following behavior.
> >
> > If I do a "onevm saveas" on a running VM with a qcow2 disk image, and
> > then shutdown the VM, I see that it successfully shutdowns and then
> > copies over the VM image.
> >
> > However, I can't start VMs from these images.  The root cause appears
> > to be that the driver is propagated to the new image; i.e. the disk
> > tempalte for the new image doesn't contain a "DRIVER=qcow2" line. The
> > resulting libvirt deployment file has "type='raw'" for the disk entry,
> > and not the needed "type='qcow2'".
> >
> > So I expect this is a bug, and a bit of a showstopper for us. Where
> > should I look to fix this?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Rob
> >
> >
> >
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