Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-09-14 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 09/05/2012 09:22 AM, Mice Xia wrote: Thanks Wido, Following two APIs are not fully implemented in java-binding and much likely to be used by vm-snapshot as far as i can tell now: 1) Domain.snapshotCreateXML(String) expect to add an arugment 'flags', specifically, '--redefine' is needed

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-09-06 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 09/05/2012 09:22 AM, Mice Xia wrote: Thanks Wido, Following two APIs are not fully implemented in java-binding and much likely to be used by vm-snapshot as far as i can tell now: 1) Domain.snapshotCreateXML(String) expect to add an arugment 'flags', specifically, '--redefine' is needed for

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-09-04 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 09/03/2012 03:47 PM, Mice Xia wrote: Dear all, Sorry for the late response.Here is a simple update for this feature, commited in the branch 'vm-snapshot', feedbacks are welcomed. [Progress] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/VM+Snapshots finish major parts for

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-09-03 Thread Mice Xia
Dear all, Sorry for the late response.Here is a simple update for this feature, commited in the branch 'vm-snapshot', feedbacks are welcomed. [Progress] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/VM+Snapshots finish major parts for xenserver/vmware run some simple tests on

RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-09 Thread Mice Xia
To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot -Original Message- From: Mice Xia [mailto:mice_...@tcloudcomputing.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 10:17 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot Kelven, Thanks for pointing out

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-09 Thread Matthew Patton
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:51:50 -0400, Edison Su edison...@citrix.com wrote: From: Mice Xia [mailto:mice_...@tcloudcomputing.com] ... For following scenarios I need some suggestions: a) 'vm snapshot, detach volume and attach it to another VM, rollback snapshot', This is not a problem. A volume

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-08 Thread Mice Xia
- From: Tamas Monos [mailto:tam...@veber.co.uk] Sent: 2012-8-8 (星期三) 18:50 To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot Hi, a) 'vm snapshot, detach volume and attach it to another VM, rollback snapshot' 2, allow to snapshot/rollback, for a), this will result in two

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-07 Thread Matthew Patton
I would kill for block based snapshots and source virtual disks instead of the apparent penchant for doing everything as files on a filesystem. How can it be that hard to use LVM snaps?

RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-07 Thread Edison Su
To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot I would kill for block based snapshots and source virtual disks instead of the apparent penchant for doing everything as files on a filesystem. How can it be that hard to use LVM snaps?

RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-06 Thread Tamas Monos
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Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-06 Thread Wido den Hollander
Subject: [Discuss] VM Snapshot Hi, All, I’d like to propose a new feature ‘VM snapshot’. Currently CS support volume snapshot, which is an EC-2 like public cloud solution. IMO, it addresses problems like ‘what if my volume lost or broke down, or what if my primary storage got an unrecoverable

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-06 Thread Kelven Yang
05, 2012 7:50 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: [Discuss] VM Snapshot Hi, All, I¹d like to propose a new feature ŒVM snapshot¹. Currently CS support volume snapshot, which is an EC-2 like public cloud solution. IMO, it addresses problems like Œwhat if my volume lost

RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-06 Thread Clayton Weise
...@citrix.com] Received: Monday, 06 Aug 2012, 11:17am To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org [cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org] Subject: RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot +1. Some of the concepts in CloudStack follows too closely to what Amazon EC2 APIs do. Snapshots (really backup as you pointed out

[Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-05 Thread Mice Xia
Hi, All, I’d like to propose a new feature ‘VM snapshot’. Currently CS support volume snapshot, which is an EC-2 like public cloud solution. IMO, it addresses problems like ‘what if my volume lost or broke down, or what if my primary storage got an unrecoverable disruption’, in other words,