On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, EdPimentl wrote:
I would like to use P2P Technology to backup Virtual Machines Environment like VMWare/XEN... Basically it would entail installing a Tahoe client in every instance of VmWare.... and or XEN... There are better cleaner ways to do it.. but at the most basic level this is what it needs to happen.
virtual machine containers like xen or vmware are more or less orthogonal to backup programs, p2p or otherwise. the backup program doesn't need to support the VM container explicitly, nor vice versa.
if you want to back up data that's inside a VM, just install the backup client inside the VM. if you want to back up the VM itself, install the backup client in the host OS and point it at the VM filesystem image and its metadata.
-Ryan -- http://snarfed.org/ _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
