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

[Javier Fontan]

An easier way to do that is to symlink your storage path to that dir.

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Olivier Sallou <olivier.sallou at irisa.fr> wrote:
> in system-wide installation, the "save" of the image on frontend is done in
> /var/lib/one.
>
> This directory is not configurable in oned.conf. This can be an issue with
> disk size when many VMs are saved. Required storage can be huge.
>
> An option of course is to copy the content then to mount this directory on
> an external file system (nfs or attached disk), but wouldn't it be easier to
> be able to specify the location of saved data?
>
> Olivier
>
>
> Le 10/26/10 3:18 PM, Javier Fontan a écrit :
>>
>> Adding to that "stop" does not mean kill-the-vm. It will susped a VM
>> and save its state/image in the frontend so it can be resumed in any
>> other host. That's why it retrieves the image back to the frontend.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Tino Vazquez<tinova at fdi.ucm.es>  wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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>>
>



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