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RFE: Non-templated VM creation #394

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usernameisalreadytaken2014 opened this issue Jul 23, 2014 · 3 comments
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RFE: Non-templated VM creation #394

usernameisalreadytaken2014 opened this issue Jul 23, 2014 · 3 comments
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@usernameisalreadytaken2014

Templates are great. They would be even greater if they could be created by importing an OVF file or similar.

But it would also be very nice to be able to create a completely custom VM from the Guests screen, where you configure the ISO image, memory, CPUs, etc. manually.

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alinefm commented Jul 24, 2014

What is the difference between creating a template with your custom configuration and then create a VM based on it? Remove one step?

Maybe allow user change a template config while creating a VM can attend your expectations.

@alinefm alinefm added this to the Backlog milestone Dec 3, 2014
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My use case is that I can create a template "Windows machine", "Splunk instance", et cetera that is properly sized, has storage in the right locations, point to the right ISOs etc.

And another person can then take that template and apply it to create a new virtual machine, without knowing a lot about the internals of the hypervisor machine where Kimchi is running, such as appropriate storage locations, memory limits, correct VNC configuration and so forth.

So it's primarily a separation of concern - the Kimchi administrator creates reasonable templates, and Kimchi users make use of those templates (possibly with hopefully minor adjustments) to create virtual machines.

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Styx13 commented Jun 2, 2016

Closed #946 as it requests for the same feature as here.
Quoting @alinefm as her proposal seems to be the proper answer to this request.

My idea is to have a "Customize" section when creating a VM. So after selecting a Template, the user can change any other configuration before creating the VM.

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