Hello, Right now, in order to quiesce the Guest OS file systems it is required to take a VM snapshot. We would like to avoid taking this snapshot for several reasons, most importantly disk space and performance. So I have been looking into how we can manually freeze/thaw the Guest OS (linux) file systems. The goal here is to allow us to perform operations on the vmdk file, e.g., backup, while the Guest OS is frozen.
I've looked into the vmsync module, and it looks like we could manually call the ioctl to freeze/thaw the file systems. Has anyone tried this before? Do people think it would work with ESX 4? Thank you for any help, Dean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
