[one-users] persistent vm images

[Nathan Hruby]

Hi,

I realize there's work ongoing for this particular feature in 3.0, and
I'm eager to play with developer releases in the coming weeks.  For
now though, how does one generate a "persistent" vm, such that I can
resubmit the same template file for a specific vm and have it pick up
where it left off, disks with data and everything?

Assuming I'm using the NFS transfer manager, it seems like I should
 - manually add a disk into the image repository for that vm
 - set the disk image to be persistent
 - set the vm template to use the specific disk image I just added
 - set clone=no in the vm template file for the disk
 - set context script for vm to pick up the correct ip, hostname, etc..
 - keep the template description around so that I may "onevm create"
it as needed

Is that correct?  I'm sorry if this is an asked an answered question,
but when googling I see the asked part but have yet to find an
"answered" post.  This may be because I am new to OpenNebula and lack
the correct vocabulary to fine tune my searches.

Thanks,

-n
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