Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-09-14 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 09/05/2012 09:22 AM, Mice Xia wrote: Thanks Wido, Following two APIs are not fully implemented in java-binding and much likely to be used by vm-snapshot as far as i can tell now: 1) Domain.snapshotCreateXML(String) expect to add an arugment 'flags', specifically, '--redefine' is needed for

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-09-06 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 09/05/2012 09:22 AM, Mice Xia wrote: Thanks Wido, Following two APIs are not fully implemented in java-binding and much likely to be used by vm-snapshot as far as i can tell now: 1) Domain.snapshotCreateXML(String) expect to add an arugment 'flags', specifically, '--redefine' is needed for a

[Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-09-05 Thread Mice Xia
Thanks Wido, Following two APIs are not fully implemented in java-binding and much likely to be used by vm-snapshot as far as i can tell now: 1) Domain.snapshotCreateXML(String) expect to add an arugment 'flags', specifically, '--redefine' is needed for associating a snapshot's meta data to a VM

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-09-04 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 09/03/2012 03:47 PM, Mice Xia wrote: Dear all, Sorry for the late response.Here is a simple update for this feature, commited in the branch 'vm-snapshot', feedbacks are welcomed. [Progress] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/VM+Snapshots finish major parts for xenserver/v

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-09-03 Thread Mice Xia
Dear all, Sorry for the late response.Here is a simple update for this feature, commited in the branch 'vm-snapshot', feedbacks are welcomed. [Progress] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/VM+Snapshots finish major parts for xenserver/vmware run some simple tests on vmware/xens

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-09 Thread Matthew Patton
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:51:50 -0400, Edison Su wrote: From: Mice Xia [mailto:mice_...@tcloudcomputing.com] ... For following scenarios I need some suggestions: a) 'vm snapshot, detach volume and attach it to another VM, rollback snapshot', This is not a problem. A volume and it's (several) s

RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-08 Thread Mice Xia
09, 2012 9:52 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot > -Original Message- > From: Mice Xia [mailto:mice_...@tcloudcomputing.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 10:17 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: [Discuss]

RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-08 Thread Edison Su
> -Original Message- > From: Mice Xia [mailto:mice_...@tcloudcomputing.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 10:17 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot > > Kelven, Thanks for pointing out this, and yes this is getti

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-08 Thread Mice Xia
rs. Regards Mice -Original Message- From: Tamas Monos [mailto:tam...@veber.co.uk] Sent: 2012-8-8 (星期三) 18:50 To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot Hi, a) 'vm snapshot, detach volume and attach it to another VM, rollback snapshot' 2, allow to

RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-08 Thread Tamas Monos
Original Message- From: Mice Xia [mailto:mice_...@tcloudcomputing.com] Sent: 08 August 2012 06:17 To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot Kelven, Thanks for pointing out this, and yes this is getting complicated when volume states/ownership changes, we need

RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-07 Thread Mice Xia
08, 2012 8:19 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot As of the requirement of VM Snapshot feature. Following feature may also be needed - Export a VM snapshot into OVA - Import OVA into CloudStack (this feature is not truly related with snapshot but make back

RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-07 Thread Edison Su
7 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot > > I would kill for block based snapshots and source virtual disks instead > of the apparent penchant for doing everything as files on a filesystem. > How can it be that hard to use LVM snaps?

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-07 Thread Matthew Patton
I would kill for block based snapshots and source virtual disks instead of the apparent penchant for doing everything as files on a filesystem. How can it be that hard to use LVM snaps?

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-07 Thread Kelven Yang
m] >>Received: Monday, 06 Aug 2012, 11:17am >>To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >>[cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org] >>Subject: RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot >> >>+1. >> >>Some of the concepts in CloudStack follows too closely to what Amazon EC2 &g

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-06 Thread Kelven Yang
m my mobile phone, please forgive any minor spelling or grammar >mistakes. > >-Original Message- >From: Alex Huang [alex.hu...@citrix.com] >Received: Monday, 06 Aug 2012, 11:17am >To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >[cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org] >Subject

RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-06 Thread Clayton Weise
...@citrix.com] Received: Monday, 06 Aug 2012, 11:17am To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org [cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org] Subject: RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot +1. Some of the concepts in CloudStack follows too closely to what Amazon EC2 APIs do. Snapshots (really backup as you pointed out

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-06 Thread Kelven Yang
Message- >> From: Mice Xia [mailto:mice_...@tcloudcomputing.com] >> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2012 7:50 PM >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: [Discuss] VM Snapshot >> >> Hi, All, >> >> I¹d like to propose a new feature ŒVM s

RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-06 Thread Alex Huang
have so far? --Alex > -Original Message- > From: Mice Xia [mailto:mice_...@tcloudcomputing.com] > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2012 7:50 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: [Discuss] VM Snapshot > > Hi, All, > > I’d like to propose

Re: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-06 Thread Wido den Hollander
apache.org Subject: [Discuss] VM Snapshot Hi, All, I’d like to propose a new feature ‘VM snapshot’. Currently CS support volume snapshot, which is an EC-2 like public cloud solution. IMO, it addresses problems like ‘what if my volume lost or broke down, or what if my primary storage got an unr

RE: [Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-06 Thread Tamas Monos
7057 http://www.veber.co.uk Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/veberhost Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/veberhost -Original Message- From: Mice Xia [mailto:mice_...@tcloudcomputing.com] Sent: 06 August 2012 03:50 To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: [Discuss] VM Sn

[Discuss] VM Snapshot

2012-08-05 Thread Mice Xia
Hi, All, I’d like to propose a new feature ‘VM snapshot’. Currently CS support volume snapshot, which is an EC-2 like public cloud solution. IMO, it addresses problems like ‘what if my volume lost or broke down, or what if my primary storage got an unrecoverable disruption’, in other words, it