Blake, The use case is saving disk space for VMware images. I routinely have 10 VM images fora development/test environment provisioned. Each image is about 20G of disk space. Linked clones when using VMWare would help greatly.
The automation Vagrant provides is very attractive and I'm preparing to purchase a 3 licenses (I know it's not a huge quantity) to get the VMWare support. Adding support for linked clones would push it right over the top. Jeff. On Friday, January 3, 2014 10:40:08 AM UTC-8, Mitchell Hashimoto wrote: > > Blake, > > The code for it is actually already in the plugin, but it isn't exposed > publicly yet. The reason is mostly due to a missing feature in Vagrant core > that I plan on implementing "soon". The urgency though is simply not high > for me because linked clones don't actually buy you a lot with Vagrant: > they improve the `up` time by maybe 5 seconds or so. But since there is a > lot of other slow things Vagrant does (wait for SSH to be available, > provision things, etc.) the overall time is barely affected by it. > > What is your use case? > > Best, > Mitchell > > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Blake Garner <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I'm looking to start a project that will be using linked clones in VMware >> fusion. Is there any updated estimate when vagrant vmware plugin will >> support linked clones? >> >> Thanks, >> Blake >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Vagrant" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
