[pve-devel] copy_vm: new option -target

[Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG]

Hi,

Am 02.05.2013 12:30, schrieb Alexandre DERUMIER:
> mmm, good point.
> 
> We create the volume with format=2,
> then after qemu-img convert copy from source to target.
> 
> but maybe qemu-img convert override the format ? seem strange ...
> 
> Maybe ceph devel list can help ?
> 
> I'll re-read the qemu-img doc.

The problem is qemu-img here it only supports v1. No one has ported
rbd_create2 or rbd_create3 to qemu-img.

https://github.com/ceph/ceph/blob/master/src/include/rbd/librbd.h#L72

but rbd in qemu:
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=block/rbd.c#l364

I also read that we'll loose sparseness with qemu-img as it does raw
export and import.

The best way would be to use rbd cp in this case which does all the things.

Stefan

> 
> ----- Mail original ----- 
> 
> De: "Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG" <s.priebe at profihost.ag> 
> À: "Alexandre DERUMIER" <aderumier at odiso.com> 
> Cc: "Dietmar Maurer" <dietmar at proxmox.com>, pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com 
> Envoyé: Jeudi 2 Mai 2013 12:15:08 
> Objet: Re: [pve-devel] copy_vm: new option -target 
> 
> Hi Alexandre, 
> 
> have you checked which rbd format qemu-img creates? I mean we have rbd 
> format 1 and format 2. 
> 
> In my tests qemu-img always create the slower and older format v1. But 
> normally if we clone a VM we should have the same settings of source and 
> target disk. 
> 
> Greets, 
> Stefan 
> 
> Am 02.05.2013 11:17, schrieb Alexandre DERUMIER: 
>>>> Ah, OK. I thought we already check that for migrate? 
>> Yes, indeed 
>>
>> # check if storage is available on both nodes 
>> my $scfg = PVE::Storage::storage_check_node($self->{storecfg}, $sid); 
>> PVE::Storage::storage_check_node($self->{storecfg}, $sid, $self->{node}); 
>>
>> But not in pve-manager. (I think we display all nodes). 
>>
>>
>> But for vm_copy maybe we can readd this check 
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Mail original ----- 
>>
>> De: "Dietmar Maurer" <dietmar at proxmox.com> 
>> À: "Alexandre DERUMIER" <aderumier at odiso.com> 
>> Cc: pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com 
>> Envoyé: Jeudi 2 Mai 2013 09:03:46 
>> Objet: RE: copy_vm: new option -target 
>>
>>>>> I thought we assume a shared storage is always available (unless disabled)? 
>>> It's possible that a shared can be assigned to specific nodes only. (nodes xxxx in 
>>> storage.cfg). 
>>> I have some shared storage in production not shared on all servers in same 
>>> cluster. (because of differents networks) 
>>
>> Ah, OK. I thought we already check that for migrate? 
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