Bug 1332095 - Incorrect warning in section 7.3.3 - Deleting a Template
Summary: Incorrect warning in section 7.3.3 - Deleting a Template
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Documentation
Version: 3.6.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ovirt-3.6.7
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Assignee: Megan Lewis
QA Contact: Tahlia Richardson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-05-02 08:22 UTC by Idan Shaby
Modified: 2016-07-08 02:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-07-08 02:38:10 UTC
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Description Idan Shaby 2016-05-02 08:22:39 UTC
Description of problem:
When a VM is created from a template, the "Template Provisioning" under the "Resource Allocation" tab can be "Clone" or "Thin".
Clone means that the disks will be cloned and the VM will not depend on the template.
Thin means that the disks will be created "above" the template's disks and will depend on them.

When choosing thin, if one tries to remove the template he gets the error message: "Cannot delete Template. Template is being used by the following VMs: <vm_name>."
When choosing clone, the template can be removed and no errors will be shown.

In the Virtual_Machine_Management_Guide, there's a warning on the beginning of section 7.3.3 that says: "If you have used a template to create a virtual machine, make sure that you do not delete the template as the virtual machine needs it to continue running."

This warning is misleading and should be removed.

Comment 1 Lucy Bopf 2016-06-21 13:01:10 UTC
Assigning to Megan for review.

Comment 4 Idan Shaby 2016-06-27 05:32:27 UTC
Looks good, thanks!

Comment 7 Megan Lewis 2016-07-08 02:38:10 UTC
The changes for this bug for 4.0 Beta are now complete and available at: 

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-virtualization/4.0-beta/virtual-machine-management-guide/74-deleting-a-template


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