[VCL-309] VM persistent loads for long-term reservations

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.2
• Component/s: vcld (backend), web gui (frontend)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Frank Aaron Peeler
• Created: 10/Feb/10 17:07
• Updated: 28/Apr/11 17:58
• Resolved: 28/Apr/11 17:58

Description

the default behavior for vmware based images are to run in non-persistent mode. This makes sense for short-term student use as it consumes less disk space and is quicker to start. Unfortunately for long-term reservations this does not apply very well. If a reboot, power-outage or something else goes wrong. Any changes in the vm based long-term reservation are gone.

Somehow we will need to detect that the reservation is a long-term reservation and the vm needs to be persistent mode.