[ovirt-users] Re: Creating VMs from templates with their own disks

Im sorry, I am trying to wrap my head around this but it is difficult. I just want to be able to stand up new vms, with their own storage, similar to how I can with plain vanilla KVM, with a template or without, maybe even with a kickstart, and hopefully with ansible. Right now anytime I try to create a VM, using the template, (with ansible), it gets the template disk attached, and from the console I see the new vm is named as the vm I created the template with. Cloud init script that is meant to rename the vm, and join it to IPA, is ignored. If I create storage for the vm, before creating it, both the template storage and the new storage are attached to the vm, which is also confusing. Cloud init is also ignored. I didn't think something this straightforward would end up needing a shift in thinking about how vms are created, especially with a product that's more than likely using kvm under the hood. I would appreciate some straightforward guiding steps, if I can get them. Really. It's been a frustrating week. > On 2021-11-17 13:50, Sina Owolabi wrote: > > > You can create a template with no disk, then VM's created from that > template will also have no disk. Then add a new disk to the VM after you > create it. This is how the default blank template works. You can also > create a template with an empty disk, then every VM created will also > get an empty disk by default. You can always rename disks as well.