My two cents. I use Time Mchine to backup my VMs and like it the way things are.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Klaus Espenlaub < klaus.espenl...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On 11.09.2015 05:00, Andrew Melo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am looking to implement enabling a setting for Virtualbox to > > automatically set the > > "com.apple.metadata:com_apple_backup_excludeItem" xattr for newly > > created disk images, most probably hooked into the global/per-VM > > extradata somewhere under the VboxInternal tree. This xattr will cause > > time machine to ignore the file when backing up, without having to > > manually add the directories where Virtualbox is storing the images. > > Sounds like a nice option to me, but not something which should happen > unconditionally (as some people might wan to have their VMs handled by > time machine). > > > Why don't I just add ~/Virtualbox\ VMs to the exclusion? Because > > there's some applications which integrate kicking off a VM for > > testing, and the images are stored next to the rest of the application > > state. > > I don't follow why you think 'time machining' VM configs without the > corresponding disk images makes any sense. > > > Looking through the source tree, the change looks to be > > straightforward, but I don't want to take the time to make a patch if > > this feature wouldn't be considered for inclusion. > > The real challenge from my perspective is to make this configurable in a > sensible way. I'm almost certain that a significant number of users > would complain if for all newly created disk images VirtualBox would > automatically exclude them from the backup. Feel free to give arguments > which support the opposite :) > > I do agree that the basic feature isn't complicated. The tricky part is > finding a sensible way to configure this, as no other platform so far > needed a similar configuration. > > Thanks for your proposal, we'll see what comes out of it... > > Klaus > > > > Thanks! > > Andrew > > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > vbox-dev@virtualbox.org > https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev >
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