On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> I'd like to use ZFS to snapshot and clone VDI files.  Of course, that's
> not supported since that would result in two files with the same UUID.
>
> So I thought I'd use a binary diff/patch tool to take the diffs between
> a pair of disks cloned with VBoxManage clonehd and apply the patch to a
> pair of disks cloned with ZFS.  But the files are large and the binary
> diff/patch tools that I know of don't deal well with large files.
>
> :(
>
> So next I might use a binary editor to search for the UUID in a VDI and
> patch in another UUID.  I bet that will work, but, it'd be nice if
> VBoxManage just had an option to do this right.

VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid

Kind regards,

Frank
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    Sun Microsystems, Inc.    www.sun.com

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