similar to: snapshots and vmdk

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 02:35:51AM +0000, Boylan, Ross wrote: > Does libvirt support snapshotting when the virtual disk comes from a > vmdk file? >From my quick test (refer below), seems like you can at-least use VMDK as a backing file. > http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Snapshots#Desired_functionality seems to > say no, since it says "'virsh snapshot', which requires all

Hello, I am working on my PhD thesis and it would be really helpfull if someone could advise me, whether can Virsh create snapshots of VMs using copy-on-write. Thanks for reply. Juraj

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 07:38:03PM +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:43:30PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > [. . .] > > > > This makes a copy of the whole disk image. It's also not a consistent > > > (point in time) copy. > > > > Oh I see that you're copying the _snapshot_ that you created with > >

Hello, I would like to ask what I am doing  wrong and what is the best approach to resolve this situation: First of all I start virtual machine by virDomainCreateXML. In my application I use libvncclient library that sends mouse events to this running domain. I had some troubles with coordinates of mouse cursor but all problem was solved when I added <input type='tablet'

[Added Stefan Hajnoczi, who wrote the 'drive-backup' QMP command and Eric Blake.] On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 07:41:23PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 07:38:03PM +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:43:30PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: [. . .] > > > > If you want lightweight, consistent, point-in-time snapshots

With VMWare (server), you can pre-allocate your image in several vmdk files. But I have not bee able to mount that in guestfs. On file (e.g. guest.vmdk) is a text file pointing to all the other files (e.g. guest-f001.vmdk, guest-f002.vmdk,...). I tried the following scenarios without success: 1- just adding the base vmdk: add_drive guest.vmdk 2- adding all the files: add_drive guest-f001.vmdk

Hi all, As we are doing plan for testing libguestfs, I have a question about vmdk support for libguestfs. In Fedora 12, we can successfully manage a vmdk image via guestfish(add -> run -> mkfs -> mount -> ...). But in RHEL6, for qemu-kvm can not boot with a vmdk image, libguestfs can not manage vmdk either. So is it true that vmdk is only supported by upstream libguestfs but not

Good afternoon, I was wondering if anyone has any in site as to how to import a VMware vmdk into xVM on OpenSolaris 2009.06 (xVM 3.1). I have a VMware VM created on VMware Server 2.0 and would like to move it over to this xVM server. I appreciate any advice anyone may have. Cheers, -Chris -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

In case the appliance is disabled at configure, then all the phony guests will not be built during the 'make check' time. Since the tests already handle an empty windows.vmdk fine (in case ntfs-3g is not available), then just create it empty in this case. Reported by: Martin Kletzander. --- v2v/Makefile.am | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/v2v/Makefile.am

Hi all, I have a RHEL6.1 qemu-kvm hypervisor running a raw image that I need for various reasons to convert to vmdk. I used this process: qemu-img convert server3.img -O vmdk server3.vmdk Then I edited the XML file (/etc/libvirt/qemu/server3.xml) like so: <devices> <emulator>/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver

Hi, Is there a way to backup KVM Guest VM running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) OS in kvmguestosimage.ova or kvmguestosimage.vmdk format as I am trying to restore it in AWS by referring to https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/ article as per the below supported file format. [1] Open Virtualization Archive (OVA) [2] Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) [3] Virtual Hard Disk (VHD/VHDX) [4] raw Also

Good evening, I understand that NTFS & VMDK do not relate to Solaris or ZFS, but I was wondering if anyone has any experience of checking the alignment of data blocks through that stack? I have a VMware ESX 4.0 host using storage presented over NFS from ZFS filesystems (recordsize 4KB). Within virtual machine VMDK files, I have formatted NTFS filesystems, block size 4KB. Dedup is turned on.

Hi! Is there any experience of converting vmware''s vmdk file to a domU image? Maybe via extracting vmdk (how?) -> build tar -> untar in domU? That would be very nice despite replacing the original kernel with a self-built one and worthy to write a script... :) Cheers, Sven. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com

Hi Folks, According to the examples in http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsDisks it should be possible to mount an iso /url as a cdrom, the example given is: </disk> <disk type='network' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source protocol="http" name="url_path"> <host

For example, http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsDisks does not contain <serial>xxxx</serial> tag. (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593266) I wrote to community (users and developers). No one has added this information to the site... -- Segmentation fault

Just a quick fyi... We''ve recently added support for blktap along with support for managing virtual disks (disk file images). There are some difference from a linux dom0. This is available in b101 @ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/sol_ex_dvd_1/ This allows you to create and manage vmdk and vdi (Virtual Box) disk files. By default, virt-install will now use a vmdk vdisk when

v8: - split the big patch into several commits v7: - rebased because patch 1/3 has been pushed - changes to nsplit have been dropped (2/3) - addressed Richard's comments, notably the subfolder function was moved to mllib and renamed to subdirectory v6: - just rebase v5: - rebase, patches 1,3,5 were merged - 1/3: we still need to discuss whether to detect compressed discs - 2/3: -

Hi folks, (Long time no post...) Only starting to get into this one, so apologies if I''m light on detail, but... I have a shiny SSD I''m using to help make some VirtualBox stuff I''m doing go fast. I have a 240GB Intel 520 series jobbie. Nice. I chopped into a few slices - p0 (partition table), p1 128GB, p2 60gb. As part of my work, I have used it both as a RAW

Hi everyone, 1. I try to boot a raw image with hda under Xen hypervisor converted by VMWARE vmdk image with scsi, but fail to boot with error message “Error loading operating system” below”. Who can give me a favor? 2. Under vSphere, create a windows XP VM with scsi storage then install a windows XP to the SCSI storage called xp.vmdk in the VM via iso file. Can successfully