[pve-devel] RFC: vm cloning implementation proposal

[Dietmar Maurer]

> >>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.

I do not understand why we need that? Please can you explain?

> >>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)

After thinking more about that, I am quite sure that we do not want that.
This will lead to many problem (for example duplicate MACs, ...).