# VM creation too slow for my VM template

**URL:** <https://forum.opennebula.io/t/vm-creation-too-slow-for-my-vm-template/12027>\
**Category:** Installation & Configuration\
**Created:** [April 10, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/vm-creation-too-slow-for-my-vm-template/12027 "2024-04-10T20:17:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![samuel1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/samuel1/32/8061_2.png) [@samuel1](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/samuel1)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/vm-creation-too-slow-for-my-vm-template/12027/1 "2024-04-10T20:17:59Z")

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Am running my Opennebula instance on a server I own. I has pulled a lot of marketplace image templates, and the vms deploy very fast for these images. But when I try to create my own template, with a custom kali qcow2 image of 30 GiB. It is too slow, it takes about 4 minutes for a machine to spawn. And takes quite a lot of time (\>30 minutes) for multiple users(30-40) to instantiate a non-persistent VM at the same time. I’m using a NAS storage for storing the data. If the marketplace image templates spawn so quick, why dont my template faster enough? Can someone help me out?

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**Author:** ![vpalma](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/vpalma/32/8065_2.png) [@vpalma](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/vpalma)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 11:11am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/vm-creation-too-slow-for-my-vm-template/12027/2 "2024-04-12T11:11:43Z")

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Hi @samuel1 👋

Could you share the Image template? I think the output of the `oneimage show -x <image_id>` command would be great.

And if you can show us the logs of a VM deployed with that image it would be awesome too 🤔, so we can see the time consumed by the VM to be deployed (You can find this log file inside the `/var/log/one/<vm_id>.log` folder.

Best,  
Victor

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**Author:** ![samuel1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/samuel1/32/8061_2.png) [@samuel1](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/samuel1)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/vm-creation-too-slow-for-my-vm-template/12027/3 "2024-04-14T19:59:48Z")

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oneimage show -x 248

```auto
<IMAGE>
  <ID>248</ID>
  <UID>0</UID>
  <GID>1</GID>
  <UNAME>oneadmin</UNAME>
  <GNAME>users</GNAME>
  <NAME>Kali Linux - offsec</NAME>
  <PERMISSIONS>
    <OWNER_U>1</OWNER_U>
    <OWNER_M>1</OWNER_M>
    <OWNER_A>0</OWNER_A>
    <GROUP_U>1</GROUP_U>
    <GROUP_M>0</GROUP_M>
    <GROUP_A>0</GROUP_A>
    <OTHER_U>0</OTHER_U>
    <OTHER_M>0</OTHER_M>
    <OTHER_A>0</OTHER_A>
  </PERMISSIONS>
  <TYPE>0</TYPE>
  <DISK_TYPE>0</DISK_TYPE>
  <PERSISTENT>0</PERSISTENT>
  <REGTIME>1704985215</REGTIME>
  <SOURCE><![CDATA[/data/LAB/datastores/1/778d2e10378cf46f0eeb167786da619d]]></SOURCE>
  <PATH><![CDATA[/data/LAB/datastores/1/96b9f37122d29c30fd0dcafc3eb7e5c8]]></PATH>
  <FORMAT><![CDATA[qcow2]]></FORMAT>
  <FS><![CDATA[]]></FS>
  <SIZE>25600</SIZE>
  <STATE>2</STATE>
  <PREV_STATE>2</PREV_STATE>
  <RUNNING_VMS>36</RUNNING_VMS>
  <CLONING_OPS>0</CLONING_OPS>
  <CLONING_ID>-1</CLONING_ID>
  <TARGET_SNAPSHOT>-1</TARGET_SNAPSHOT>
  <DATASTORE_ID>1</DATASTORE_ID>
  <DATASTORE>default</DATASTORE>
  <VMS>
    <ID>455</ID>
    <ID>513</ID>
    <ID>538</ID>
    <ID>539</ID>
    <ID>540</ID>
    <ID>541</ID>
    <ID>542</ID>
    <ID>543</ID>
    <ID>544</ID>
    <ID>545</ID>
    <ID>546</ID>
    <ID>547</ID>
    <ID>548</ID>
    <ID>549</ID>
    <ID>550</ID>
    <ID>551</ID>
    <ID>552</ID>
    <ID>553</ID>
    <ID>554</ID>
    <ID>555</ID>
    <ID>557</ID>
    <ID>558</ID>
    <ID>559</ID>
    <ID>560</ID>
    <ID>561</ID>
    <ID>562</ID>
    <ID>563</ID>
    <ID>564</ID>
    <ID>565</ID>
    <ID>566</ID>
    <ID>567</ID>
    <ID>568</ID>
    <ID>569</ID>
    <ID>572</ID>
    <ID>584</ID>
    <ID>586</ID>
  </VMS>
  <CLONES/>
  <APP_CLONES/>
  <TEMPLATE>
    <DEV_PREFIX><![CDATA[sd]]></DEV_PREFIX>
    <LABELS><![CDATA[Now]]></LABELS>
  </TEMPLATE>
  <SNAPSHOTS/>
  <BACKUP_INCREMENTS/>
</IMAGE>

```

Logs of the VM:

> Sun Apr 14 21:08:00 2024 [Z0][VM][I]: New state is ACTIVE  
> Sun Apr 14 21:08:00 2024 [Z0][VM][I]: New LCM state is PROLOG  
> Sun Apr 14 21:15:11 2024 [Z0][VM][I]: New LCM state is BOOT  
> Sun Apr 14 21:15:11 2024 [Z0][VMM][I]: Generating deployment file: /var/lib/one/vms/595/deployment.0  
> Sun Apr 14 21:15:11 2024 [Z0][VMM][I]: Successfully execute transfer manager driver operation: tm\_context.  
> Sun Apr 14 21:15:12 2024 [Z0][VMM][I]: ExitCode: 0  
> Sun Apr 14 21:15:12 2024 [Z0][VMM][I]: Successfully execute network driver operation: pre.  
> Sun Apr 14 21:15:12 2024 [Z0][VMM][I]: ExitCode: 0  
> Sun Apr 14 21:15:12 2024 [Z0][VMM][I]: Successfully execute virtualization driver operation: /bin/mkdir -p.  
> Sun Apr 14 21:15:12 2024 [Z0][VMM][I]: ExitCode: 0  
> Sun Apr 14 21:15:12 2024 [Z0][VMM][I]: Successfully execute virtualization driver operation: /bin/cat - \>/data/CLAB/datastores/0/595/vm.xml.  
> Sun Apr 14 21:15:12 2024 [Z0][VMM][I]: ExitCode: 0  
> Sun Apr 14 21:15:12 2024 [Z0][VMM][I]: Successfully execute virtualization driver operation: /bin/cat - \>/data/CLAB/datastores/0/595/ds.xml.  
> Sun Apr 14 21:15:13 2024 [Z0][VMM][I]: ExitCode: 0  
> Sun Apr 14 21:15:13 2024 [Z0][VMM][I]: Successfully execute virtualization driver operation: deploy.  
> Sun Apr 14 21:15:13 2024 [Z0][VMM][I]: ExitCode: 0  
> Sun Apr 14 21:15:13 2024 [Z0][VMM][I]: Successfully execute network driver operation: post.  
> Sun Apr 14 21:15:13 2024 [Z0][VM][I]: New LCM state is RUNNING