[pve-devel] savevm tests

[Alexandre DERUMIER]

>> >>But limited (no support for arbitrary snapshot trees)? 
>> Yes indeed. (But try to do 1000 snapshots with qcow2 ;-) 

>I never tried that - is it slow? Or what is the problem? 

Yes it's slow. (But maybe it's better now,I have tested it 1 year ago).
Note that vmware by exemple, recommend to use 3 snapshots max. 
I must depend of the cow and metadatas implementation I think.


>>And you want to implement that API twice? Not really an option for me. 
I don't understand what you want to say. I just want to add a snapshot sub in the nexenta storage plugin
something like this
sub nexenta_snapshot_zvol {
  
        my $json = '{"method": "snapshot","object" : "zvol","params": ["pool/image at snap1"]}';
        nexenta_request($json);

}



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De: "Dietmar Maurer" <dietmar at proxmox.com> 
À: "Alexandre DERUMIER" <aderumier at odiso.com> 
Cc: pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com 
Envoyé: Mercredi 29 Août 2012 18:44:54 
Objet: RE: [pve-devel] savevm tests 

> >>But limited (no support for arbitrary snapshot trees)? 
> Yes indeed. (But try to do 1000 snapshots with qcow2 ;-) 

I never tried that - is it slow? Or what is the problem? 

> >>IMHO cloning has totally different requirements - we should not mix that. 
> Yes/no : we need to snapshot for cloning (at least for 
> sheepdog,rbd,nexenta). 
> qcow2 is a little different, as cloning is just an external snapshot. 
> But indeed, for now, working on snapshot is already a big work. 
> 
> >>Besides, I just don't know how to implement nexenta snapshot support 
> inside kvm. 
> >>Do you want to call an external program which uses libpve-storage-perl? 
> It's just an soap api. (like for create/delete nexenta volume). 

And you want to implement that API twice? Not really an option for me. 

> But yes,it's only disk snapshot, it's not possible to save the vmstate memory. 

Yes, that is another drawback. 



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