Hi Andreas, I think what you're suggesting can be adapted fairly easily. Try reading this [1] guide, it might clarify some concepts.
[1] http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.2:template Is there any particular step you would like help with? regards, Jaime On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Andreas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jaime, > > thanks for reading and answering. I read the article about the the CERN > use > case, but in IMHO it's not the same. > They use complete partition images for the VMs. > The difference is, they make a dd of the VM-partition and i mount the VM- > partition in the Dom0 and tar the files in the VM-partition. The > tar-archive > is my VM-image. > The last days i looked at the scripts of the LVM Transfer Manager. Maybe > it's > possible to change these scripts that they do a mount&tar instead of a dd. > But > i don't know how the processes work in detail. > > All suggestion are welcome. > > > Regards > Andreas > > > > Hi Andreas, > > > > it seems that you have a similar use case as CERN does. Take a look at > > these links to see if this is what you're looking for: > > > > The storage setup is explained here: http://blog.opennebula.org/?p=620 > > A preliminary version of the TM drivers: > > https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/FIOgroup/OpenNebula > > and http://opennebula.org/software:ecosystem:scp-wave > > > > Regards, > > Jaime > > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Andreas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > since i hear a speech from Tino Vazquez on the OSDC in Germany (which > > > was really good), im very interested in opennebula. > > > After reading documentation und testing some parts there seems to be a > > > problem > > > with our uncommon Xen-configuration. > > > > > > We have no central storage for the images. The images are copied over > ssh > > > to > > > the hosts (Dom0). > > > Our DomUs based on LVM-partitions, which are directly mounted in the > > > DomU. They appear as a partition and not as a disk in the DomU. > > > The disk configuration for a DomU is like following: > > > > > > 'phy:/dev/system/helios-1_root,hda1,w' > > > > > > To save a DomU we mount the LVM-Partition in the Dom0 and make a > > > tar-archive > > > of the files and directories in the partition. A copy of the kernel and > > > the initrd is provided in the Dom0 to start the DomU with the > > > Xen-bootloader. > > > > > > Does support Opennebula such a type of configuration and if not, how > > > difficult > > > it is to adjust it? Where i must start, if i want integrate these > > > configuration? > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Andreas > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > -- Jaime Melis, Cloud Technology Engineer/Researcher Major Contributor OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing www.OpenNebula.org | [email protected]
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