Re: [qubes-users] Is it possible to create a fast clone/copy-on-write Qube?

2018-05-23 Thread fsharpn00b
Hi Chris, Thank you very much for your fast and helpful reply. For the sake of my own learning, I've been trying to verify what you said by doing the following: 1. Clone a VM. 2. Compare the sizes of the parent and child VMs. 3. The child VM (which contains no delta from the parent VM) should

Re: [qubes-users] Is it possible to create a fast clone/copy-on-write Qube?

2018-05-22 Thread Chris Laprise
On 05/22/2018 05:51 PM, fsharpn...@gmail.com wrote: I want to do the following. 1. Create an HVM Qube. This Qube contains a clean install of an OS such as Windows 8 or Arch. 2. Clone the Qube from #1. The files that make up this Qube should just contain the delta from the parent Qube. Writes

[qubes-users] Is it possible to create a fast clone/copy-on-write Qube?

2018-05-22 Thread fsharpn00b
I want to do the following. 1. Create an HVM Qube. This Qube contains a clean install of an OS such as Windows 8 or Arch. 2. Clone the Qube from #1. The files that make up this Qube should just contain the delta from the parent Qube. Writes are made to the child Qube; reads go to the child