<div dir="ltr">Hi Pentium,<div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Pentium100 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pentium100@gmail.com" target="_blank">pentium100@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>Let's say a user created a VM using a non persistent image (a template). Is there a way to now clone the image and make it persistent (remember - the user does not own the original non persistent image) without losing data.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, the user can do a disk snapshot [1]. This saves the disk as a new image once the VM is shutdown (or immediately if the snapshot is live).</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div></div>Alternatively, is there a way to allow a user to clone the image but not allow him to use the original (clone, make persistent, then use)?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The USE permissions allows both actions [2], so there is no simple way to change it.</div>
<div>Maybe it is enough for you to change the template creation wizard and filter the Images owned by the connected user & persistent.</div>
<div><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Regards</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">[1] <a href="http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.2:vm_guide_2#disk_snapshoting" target="_blank">http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.2:vm_guide_2#disk_snapshoting</a><br>
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[2] <a href="http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.2:api" target="_blank">http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.2:api</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>
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