Hi, I'd like you to take a look at this patch for potential DocImpact. https://review.openstack.org/37819 Log: commit 68358bd27d353ef5318f3b1eb7cdf1bc5548ec6d Author: hartsocks <hartsocks at vmware.com> Date: Tue Jul 2 18:38:14 2013 -0700 VMware image clone strategy settings and defaults. The VMwareAPI driver code currently spawns all virtual machines copying the disks using a linked-clone strategy by default. The VMwareAPI also offers a "full clone" strategy. This patch makes the following changes and improvements. * default clone strategy to "full clone" * allow images to specify if they are "linked_clone" or not. For technical discussion on the clone strategies and their trade-offs see: https://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_clone_typeofclone.html DocImpact Change-Id: I7a7ad57708202c8e8af5551b92a1e734185125f4 Blueprint: vmware-image-clone-strategy Automatically generated bug (please review): https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1202894