Bug 1076288

Summary: [Docs] [Feature] VM Templates can now be modified
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reporter: Zac Dover <zdover>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Andrew Dahms <adahms>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Version: 3.4.0CC: acathrow, gklein, yeylon
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Last Closed: 2014-03-27 00:23:18 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Zac Dover 2014-03-14 02:49:01 UTC 
Customer want us to have a mechanism to modify a template and have the
guests started from that template recognize the changes at the next
reboot. Currently this is not possible in RHEV, but available in
Vmware/Citrix and etc. This will make system updates, patch deployment,
deployment of applications in batch very easier for the admin. The
requirement given by the customer is as below.

"I create a VM at time t, from it I create a template. Out of this
template, I create 200 VMs and provide it to my users.

At t+1, I have got a patch + new applications to provide to my user. I
would like to do a copy of my original template, start it and modify it.
In an ideal world, I would like to say that at the next reboot of the
VMs or at 5:00 AM, it should switch from the old template to my new
template. I should not require to rebuild a new pool out of this new
template."
  --https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558995
Comment 1 Andrew Dahms 2014-03-27 00:23:18 UTC 
The content of this bug is addressed with template versions, which is covered by Bug #1075492.
Closing.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1075492 ***