Bug 1125853

Summary:	[Docs] [RFE] The location and purpose of the sysprep template files and their usage should be documented
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager	Reporter:	Andrew Dahms <adahms>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Megan Lewis <melewis>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Byron Gravenorst <bgraveno>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	3.5.0	CC:	adahms, ipinto, jbelka, juwu, lbopf, melewis, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, rbalakri, rhev-docs, srevivo, tjelinek, ykaul, ylavi
Target Milestone:	ovirt-4.1.3	Keywords:	FutureFeature, Improvement
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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URL:	https://access.redhat.com/discussions/1243653, https://access.redhat.com/discussions/1189583
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Last Closed:	2017-06-26 06:53:59 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Andrew Dahms 2014-08-01 09:08:01 UTC

I am raising this bug as a potential 'nice-to-have'.

The following directory on the Manager contains a list of files that act as templates for the sysprep function. My asusmption is that these files affect the function of the Sysprep options for Windows-based virtual machines, but we do not have any information on their location or how they interact with sysprep inside the Administration Portal.

/usr/share/ovirt-engine/conf/sysprep/

Comment 6 Andrew Dahms 2015-09-03 00:37:53 UTC

Changing status back to 'New' until re-assignment.

Comment 7 Sandro Bonazzola 2015-10-26 12:39:43 UTC

this is an automated message. oVirt 3.6.0 RC3 has been released and GA is targeted to next week, Nov 4th 2015.
Please review this bug and if not a blocker, please postpone to a later release.
All bugs not postponed on GA release will be automatically re-targeted to

- 3.6.1 if severity >= high
- 4.0 if severity < high

Comment 8 Lucy Bopf 2016-05-11 06:39:29 UTC

Assigning to Megan for review.

Megan, this bug is closely related to the other items around sealing virtual machines for templates. We currently have a small amount of information about these sysprep template files in the VMM guide:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.6/html-single/Virtual_Machine_Management_Guide/#Virtual_Machine_Run_Once_settings_explained

Comment 22 Tomas Jelinek 2017-04-25 10:10:36 UTC

*** Bug 1439775 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 32 Byron Gravenorst 2017-06-19 06:00:50 UTC

Verified and Merged.

I updated the revision history for 3.6.

Comment 33 Megan Lewis 2017-06-22 08:13:07 UTC

The content for 4.1 and 4.0 is now published:
4.1: 
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.1/html-single/virtual_machine_management_guide/#sect-Using_Sysprep_to_Automate_the_Configuration_of_Virtual_Machines

4.0: 
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.0/html-single/virtual_machine_management_guide/#sect-Using_Sysprep_to_Automate_the_Configuration_of_Virtual_Machines

Comment 34 Megan Lewis 2017-06-26 06:53:59 UTC

3.6
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.6/html-single/Virtual_Machine_Management_Guide/index.html#sect-Using_Sysprep_to_Automate_the_Configuration_of_Virtual_Machines