[pve-devel] RFC: vm cloning implementation proposal

[Alexandre DERUMIER]

>>You want to clone a specific snapshot? 
Yes. we need to clone from a snapshot for sheepdog,rbd,nexenta. 
So choosing the snapshot we want is good.


>>Live cloning include VM state? 
I don't think we need to clone the vmstate,
But we can read the vmstate from sourcevm for the first start of the cloned vm . ( we can't rollback on the clone without a first snap)



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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 3 Octobre 2012 12:35:53 
Objet: RE: [pve-devel] RFC: vm cloning implementation proposal 

> like a linux image or windows image, 
> you want to do security updates or install new packages on the image, then 
> make a new snapshot, and clone from this new snapshot. 

You want to clone a specific snapshot? 

> Live cloning can be also good to duplicate a vm to do tests in parallel. 
> 
> So, I think that live cloning is better, but maybe I'm wrong. 

Live cloning include VM state?