[pve-devel] Disk Image Upload

[Timo Grodzinski]

Hi Dietmar!

That seems like a good solution for our problem.

We are a little busy now and will implement your idea when the CeBit is
over.

Best regards
Timo

Am 20.02.2016 um 14:35 schrieb Dietmar Maurer:
>> Your argument is correct, that would be the best way.
>>
>> But the problem for us is that our customers use the proxmox ui with 
>> very limited permissions.
>> They don't maintain their drives on their own, the buttons to add or 
>> remove disks are not visible to them. Also they don't have permission to 
>> allocate space on the storage for vm images.
>>
>> Do you know how to combine your described way with our restrictions?
> 
> Maybe we can introduce a special permission called
> 
> Datastore.ReplaceDisk
> 
> That would allow the user to:
> 
> - allocate and upload a temporary disk with same size as 
>   a existing one
> 
> - automatically replace the VM disk when upload completes
> 
> If the user has Datastore.AllocateSpace, we can use the 
> unusedX volume mechanism (no need to auto-replace an existing disk) 
> 


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