Yeah, I am totally fine with retiring them. David
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]>wrote: > virt-convert & virt-image: > > These tools depend on the virt-image format, a noble attempt to make a > non-proprietary version of OVF. I think there is still a need to make > an open version of the horrible proprietary fake-standard of OVF, but > virt-image isn't it. > > Having these tools does create confusion for users (particularly > versus when they should run 'qemu-img convert' or virt-v2v) so I think > we should drop them. > > virt-clone: > > This tool is supposed to clone existing images. But you can just run > dd/cp to clone the disks + 'virt-install --import' to create libvirt > configuration. > > To do full cloning you will really need something a lot more advanced > that can see inside the disks, ie. virt-sysprep, or that can sparsify > disks (virt-sysprep), or that can do templating (virt-builder et al). > > virt-clone is troublesome for me. Most people I meet who try to use > it should be using virt-sysprep. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and > build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW >
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