On 28/08/14 15:50, Bob Ball wrote: >> http://wiki.xensource.com/wiki/Disk_import/export_APIs > This is great, but I think we're missing the ability to pull a VHD in or push > a VHD out. > > The OpenStack case needs to call a vm-import giving a URL to pull a VHD from, > and a vm-export to push a VHD out to. > In particular I think we need to set specific headers as well, as > authentication, so I'd like to propose the following as a hopefully simple > extension: > > xe vdi-export uuid=$VDI format=vhd dest=http://192.168.0.1:5000/... > headers:arbitrary_string=$AUTH_TOKEN > > xe vdi-import uuid=$RESTORE format=vhd source=http://192.168.0.1:5000/... > headers:arbitrary_string=$AUTH_TOKEN
Agreed - this would be really useful for vagrant too; currently we have to download the VHD to the users desktop before pushing it out to the XenServer. It'd be much more useful to host the VHD file somewhere and ask the XenServer to download it. Jon _______________________________________________ Xen-api mailing list Xen-api@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-api
