[pve-devel] Upload and import disk images
Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
s.priebe at profihost.ag
Mon Jan 18 09:02:01 CET 2016
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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