[PVE-User] Script for copying VMs?

[Dennis Benzinger]

Hello Dietmar!

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Dietmar Maurer [mailto:dietmar at proxmox.com]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 9. Dezember 2010 17:17
> An: Dennis Benzinger; pve-user at pve.proxmox.com
> Betreff: RE: Script for copying VMs?
> 
> Please can you also reply to the list (instead of using private mail
> only)?

Yes, that's what I wanted to do. Will pay more attention to the next time.

> > Do I understand correctly that this will only work with KVM, not with
> > OpenVZ?
> 
> 
> no

So I can use qmrestore with OpenVZ dumps? If so, then what's the difference
to vzrestore?

> > And the TAR will still be created in memory,
> 
> no, nothing is held in memory (we write to a pipe instead).

That's what I meant. That vzdump still wraps all files in a TAR structure.
Even if the complete TAR is not held in memory.
 
> >  it won't copy directly to a new
> > directory?
> 
> it creates a pipe - format is still tar - but I don't see how that
> matters.
> [...]

If I want to create a new VM immediately (opposed to storing the TAR)
wouldn't it be easier and faster to simply copy the files? I'm concerned
a little bit about the TAR overhead if I have many files in my VM. But
I never measured the overhead so I can't complain.


Regards,
Dennis Benzinger