[pve-devel] [PATCH] Make qm clone working with devices.

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Sun Oct 26 14:14:37 CET 2014


> Imagine there is a device with 4TB mapped to a guest. There is no possibility to
> copy this huge amount of data. When people do disk device mappings, they
> know what they are doing, so indeed they know that a copy will reference the
> same physical disk.

Again, this is not a 'clone'.

> What would your proposal to clone/copy the device data?

Use a storage which support such operations.

- Dietmar




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