While working on adding a snapshot creation time metric, I notice that in The UI the snapshot is deleted by default when you delete a vm- which is not recommended by storage team, and there is not an option to change that (see screenshot)

not sure when this behavior started but now it's 4.17.

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1. create a vm1
2. create a snapshot of vm1
3. delete vm1
4. see that also the snapshot was deleted

Snapshot is deleted by default when a vm is deleted and there is no checkbox to change that.

Snapshot should not be deleted by default when you delete a vm, only if the user check the box(need to add new box for delete vm snapshot. I suggest to call the new box *Confirm Deletion of All VM Snapshots* and do not check this box by default. 

I'm adding the thread I talked about it with storage team: https://redhat-internal.slack.com/archives/C01B610HL81/p1725456527586159

skagan
  Wednesday at 4:46 PM
Its not supposed to delete the vmsnapshots

skagan
  Wednesday at 4:47 PM
unless the UI is doing something they are not supposed to..

alitman
  Wednesday at 5:16 PM
so it does delete it in the UI, it's also mentioned as a warning. thanks a lot

skagan
  Wednesday at 5:36 PM
I dont think we want this kind of behavior from the UI, especially when there is no way to cancel this behavior. @alitke@mhenriks WDYT?

mhenriks
  Wednesday at 5:39 PM
Yeah to me this behavior should not be the default. Maybe another checkbox