[pve-devel] Upload and import disk images

[Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG]

Am 15.01.2016 um 02:19 schrieb Alexandre DERUMIER:
>>> - directly pipe to qemu-img so no need to aquire temp space for image
> 
> I'm not sure it's possible to pipe to qemu-img.
> 
> also, maybe it could be possible with raw source file, but qcow2,vmdk,vhdx have some headers and specific structure, so it seem difficult.

you're right i missed this. This is also the reason why qemu-img does
not support STDIN and STDOUT. So we need to upload the whole image to a
TMP dir and import it later. May be we can use the Template dir for that?

> One way is to implement an nbd server daemon/agent on the source server or user desktop(where the source file are located)
> "
> Then qemu-img could use it as source.

But that involves the user being able to start this agent / daemon.

Grüße
Stefan

> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Stefan Priebe" <s.priebe at profihost.ag>
> À: "dietmar" <dietmar at proxmox.com>
> Cc: "pve-devel" <pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com>
> Envoyé: Jeudi 14 Janvier 2016 19:28:18
> Objet: Re: [pve-devel] Upload and import disk images
> 
> Am 14.01.2016 um 18:54 schrieb Dietmar Maurer <dietmar at proxmox.com>: 
> 
>>>>> just to be sure. Nobody interested? 
>>>>
>>>> I personally do not need such feature. What is the use case exactly? 
>>>
>>> The idea is to enable people to easily migrate from vmware, xen, 
>>> virtualbox, local kvm to proxmox. The most common problem we face is how 
>>> do i get my virtual drives from vmware to proxmox. 
>>
>> Ah, yes - looks like a good feature (and easy enough to implement) 
> 
> The idea is sonething like this: 
> - add an upload button next to resize for each disk 
> - use the iso / cd upload code for uploading (current browsers do not seem to have an upload limit) 
> - directly pipe to qemu-img so no need to aquire temp space for image 
> 
> Do you think this will work? 
> 
> Greets, 
> Stefan 
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