[one-users] one2 : save tag does not seem to work

[Rich Wellner]

I have run into issues like this also, and would like to suggest that 
more than a documentation update needs to happen.  One should also 
either abort or, at least, throw a warning telling the user the his 
arguments are going to be ignored.

rw2

On 10/26/10 8:14 AM, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> ok, so it is rather an issue with documentation not really clear at 
> http://www.opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.0:img_template.
> Page should specify that image template override vm template for disk 
> related data.
>
> In my case, I do not want to save the VM, and I do not specify any tag 
> to do so in image description. Though, image is saved anyway.
> In documentation, it is said that "save" is "no" by default at 
> http://www.opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.0:template.
>
> Does it means that I should explicitly specify "save=no" in my image 
> template?
>
> Here is my oneimage detail:
>
> IMAGE  INFORMATION
> ID             : 5
> NAME           : sampleraw2
> TYPE           : OS
> REGISTER TIME  : 10/25 18:59:12
> PUBLIC         : Yes
> PERSISTENT     : No
> SOURCE         : 
> /local/one_images/nebula/images/0c2bdd685a6f0abe21b3fb2ba298083abcc5206c
> STATE          : rdy
> RUNNING_VMS    : 0
>
> IMAGE TEMPLATE
> DESCRIPTION=Sample suse raw file
> DEV_PREFIX=hd
> NAME=sampleraw2
> PATH=/path_to_my_appliance
>
> Thanks
>
> Olivier
>
> Le 10/26/10 2:29 PM, Tino Vazquez a écrit :
>> Dear Olivier,
>>
>> When using the Image Catalog, and not the old method of specifying the
>> full image path in the source attribute, the values of disk attributes
>> "save" and "clone" are overridden by the Image Catalog inferring them
>> from the image properties (persistency, save_as).
>>
>> If you want to save the image when using the Image Catalog, either
>> make it persistent or, if you want to save it as another image, use
>> the save_as functionality.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> -Tino
>>
>> -- 
>> Constantino Vázquez Blanco | dsa-research.org/tinova
>> Virtualization Technology Engineer / Researcher
>> OpenNebula Toolkit | opennebula.org
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Olivier 
>> Sallou<olivier.sallou at irisa.fr>  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I have a template with:
>>> DISK   = [
>>>   image = "sampleraw2",
>>>   save = "no"
>>>    ]
>>>
>>> and when I do "onevm stop",  one still tries to save the vm on the 
>>> frontend.
>>> (I also tried with save=no  instead of save="no").
>>>
>>> Should I create a bug for this or is there something wrong in my 
>>> template?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Olivier
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