Greetings. I'm currently looking into creating a better solution for my combination of Sun xVM Virtualbox and ZFS.
I have two 500g sata drives configured into a zpool. I've used virtualbox for awhile, as well as zfs, so I am familiar with their functionalities. My main question, is more of a theory or 'best practice' based concern with the two entities. Right now I have a zfs filesystem that holds all of my virtualbox vdi files, as well as the machine files. This really isn't a space saving situation, because the use of zfs clones/snapshots encompasses the entire zfs filesystem (tank/xvm), so I was wondering if any of you had a better solution. I usually create 'gold' images of virtual machines after successful OS installation + vbox tools. I would then use the virtualbox clonevdi commands to create more vdi files when I'd like to test different situations. I don't like the virtualbox snapshots as much as fresh vdi files. As of right now, I was thinking of creating a 'gold image' zfs filesystem (tank/xvm/VDI/gold), and then the snapshot+clone techniques to create something like: tank/xvm/VDI/clones. The problem is that if I ever add a new 'gold vdi file', it does not effect the clones, so I won't be saving the disk space when I clone that vdi file. I am certain I'll be testing more OS's than the current ones, so scalability is a concern. Anyone have a similar setup, but with better results, or maybe something I could use as an idea? Thanks in advance, Steve -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org