Re: [Qemu-devel] [virt-tools-list] Virt Tools Survey: What to do about virt-clone

2011-05-11 Thread Alexander Boström
On tis, 2011-05-10 at 12:56 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Fedora > -- > > In theory you can just write a file /.unconfigured in the root, and Perhaps this could also be triggered by a change in the system UUID (see dmidecode). Store the UUID in a file during kickstart/firstboot and chec

Re: [Qemu-devel] [virt-tools-list] Virt Tools Survey: What to do about virt-clone

2011-05-11 Thread Juerg Haefliger
> (a) Is cloning guests useful for you or not?  Often or infrequently? I don't 'clone' in the strict sense of the word. I create a base raw OS image and provide that image to other users as a common starting point for them to setup their guests. I don't care about the XML definition, just the raw

Re: [Qemu-devel] [virt-tools-list] Virt Tools Survey: What to do about virt-clone

2011-05-10 Thread Decker, Schorschi
Given a couple of questions I have gotten in response to my survey responses... let me clarify, although I imply we do a significant volume of V2V, which we do as well, the responses below are targeted and applicable to cloning. Especially the need to re-personalize clones beyond the OS scope to t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [virt-tools-list] Virt Tools Survey: What to do about virt-clone

2011-05-10 Thread Decker, Schorschi
(a) Is cloning guests useful for you or not? Often or infrequently? Our end-users are quite virtualization aware, they have demanded that we support a number of features in our virtual infrastructure, this included. It will be used frequently and often, maybe 100s of times a day across our globa

Re: [Qemu-devel] [virt-tools-list] Virt Tools Survey: What to do about virt-clone

2011-05-10 Thread Bruno Lamps
> > (a) Is cloning guests useful for you or not? Often or infrequently? > I clone VMs once os twice a month. It's usefull for creating test environments for the applications this company runs, and to safely backup a VM before doing some change of update. (b) Do you currently use virt-clone to cl