On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:55 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: "李彪" <[email protected]>
> To: "vbox-dev" <[email protected]>
> Cc:
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:16:17 +0800
> Subject: [vbox-dev] issue on broadcast diff image to others
> All:
>
> I had set up a working environment where people are using one VBOX VM for 
> their daily work, with a prepared VDI file downloaded from file server by 
> wireless and clone & run in each one's PC.
>
> however, there is a requirement that admin will update the VDI file EVERY DAY 
> and he want his change can be automatically sync to all other guys PC, and he 
> does not want people to download whole VDI file every day, since the VDI file 
> size(>5G) and number of people (300) make it impossible in wireless 
> environment.
>
> Is it possible to find such a solution that only the change made by admin can 
> be synced to all others PC and merged ?
>
> thomas

Hi Thomas,

I'd suggest you look into bsdiff [1] or xdelta [2].
Also, rsync [3] might be able to solve your problem more elegantly,
depending on what the rest of your setup is like.

[1] http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/
[2] http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man1/xdelta.1.php
[3] http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man1/rsync.1.php

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