Cannot Enable Base VM support on Child Node Only

[rajpatel-msstate]

I am working on implementing this project at my work place. I can't seem to find any documentation on how can I only create base image on the child node only. I did attempt to prepare base on the "localhost" and then only having child node as the available node. For whatever reason, it seems to think it needs to perform "remove" base from the localhost and not simply having the vms be created from the child node.
A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to 'Base' option under the prepared VM
2. Click on 'Prepare Base'
3. Once the base has been set on "localhost"
4. Click checkmark on the any other child node besides master node
5. Uncheck "master" node.
   Error: It is at this point where the code will try to remove all the base for the VM and retrieve it steps back and just have a VM.

Current Ravada Version: 1.4.0

Please advise.
I have seen someone posted this issue before, but I am not able to resolve this on my end. It may be my incompetence.

[frankiejol]

Hello @rkp88, thank you for your question.
In this current release, we thought of nodes as secondary hardware. We envisioned them as servers you could set when required and shut them off afterwards. It was also much easier to develop.
So bases must be created in the main node always. It is a fair request to think about deploying different bases to different nodes and not keeping them in the main host. That is a feature we may add in a future release, though not a priority right now.

Anyway, thank you for your nice question, we will review the documentation accuracy.

[rajpatel-msstate]

Thank you @frankiejol for your detailed information.

I would like to thank you for your amazing work on this project. I hope you will keep my request in mind for a major release in the future.

[frankiejol]

I add the request to the roadmap plan.