On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:46 AM, Heinz Nikolaus Gies <he...@licenser.net>
wrote:

> Hi Greg,
> FiFo has no special facilities for that beyond the ability to turn a
> snapshot of a VM into a dataset. So basically you’d:
> 1) go about the normal way to create a Windows VM (from the command line)
> 2) do the necessary steps to make it a dataset (I am not really sure what
> is required for windows have never done that)
> 3a) make a snapshot of the VM in FiFo and use the imaging tab inside the
> vm to turn the snapshot into a dataset
> 3b) use the command line to create a snapshot and dataset and then import
> it via fifo’s python command line client (pyfi)
>
> I hope that helps!
>

Yep, this makes the most sense and it really helpful.  Keeping a local
snapshot of windows server is really handy for future installs, as the qemu
drives for the virtual disk and network devices aren't in windows

Thank you Heinz.

Greg



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