While creating an image is more efficient and should be the way to do it
(specially if you plan to deploy it multiple times) you can also do this:
Create a folder inside /zones to store the files.
1. Shutdown the VM and snapshot all hard drives
zfs snap zones/uuid-disk0
zfs snap zones/uuid-disk1
2. zfs send zones/uuid-disk0 > file
(If the disk(s) use compression gzip,lz4,lzjb,zle there is no need to gzip
the stream since the gains are negligible )
3. vmadm get > vmconf
If you need to create a VM with your backup do this:
vmadm create (new kvm)
vmadm stop (new-kvm)
zfs destroy -f zones/{new kvm}-disk0
zfs receive zones/{new kvm}-disk0 < file
On Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 4:53 PM Youzhong Yang <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I need to store our own kvm image on our server, what format of the
> image file should be? zfs send stream and compressed by gzip? where to put
> the file? together with the manifest file?
>
> The following image on joyent server does not say anything about the file
> location. I have no idea what it is:
>
> https://images.joyent.com/images/0ed8e3fa-154e-4302-8d4e-d74f877dbf37
>
> "files": [
> {
> "sha1": "55719bec7dcde369ca8bfdff8e289335d798216e",
> "size": 329064188,
> "compression": "gzip"
> }
> ],
>
> Just want to ask before digging in.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Youzhong
>
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