Re: [one-users] Adding an external VM to Open Nebula

2014-02-23 Thread Poul Kristensen
Hi! When will this be supported? I think it is quite relevant! I have a lot of vm's too(e.g. Redhat,Debian,Ubuntu), which I would like to bring into OpenNebula control. I know this is possible in Vmware(import) just like it is possible to export vm'sd in Vmware although you ! use Vmware's *.vmdk

[one-users] HOWTO: various questions about open nebula

2014-02-23 Thread Paolo Di Francesco
Hi All I am wondering if there are such functionalities in opennebula: 1) backup a virtual machine without shutting it down (usually, do a snapshoot and then back it up) 2) as previous, but possibly storing it in a zipped file, I mean if the virtual HD is empty (all ZERO) why should I keep

Re: [one-users] HOWTO: various questions about open nebula

2014-02-23 Thread Poul Kristensen
I would recommend backup as usual with a backup client. /Poul Den 23/02/2014 21.11 skrev Paolo Di Francesco paolo.difrance...@level7.it : Hi All I am wondering if there are such functionalities in opennebula: 1) backup a virtual machine without shutting it down (usually, do a snapshoot and

Re: [one-users] Adding an external VM to Open Nebula

2014-02-23 Thread Stuart Longland
On 23/02/14 20:42, Poul Kristensen wrote: When will this be supported? I think it is quite relevant! I have a lot of vm's too(e.g. Redhat,Debian,Ubuntu), which I would like to bring into OpenNebula control. I know this is possible in Vmware(import) just like it is possible to export vm'sd in

Re: [one-users] HOWTO: various questions about open nebula

2014-02-23 Thread kenneth
Title: Thanks 1. Yes, we can have deferred and hot snapshot. Deferred means backup is done when you shutdown the VM, hot means a live snapshot. 2. I haven't tested it yet, but you can manually zip an image. If you saved it as qcow2 and it is empty, file size is