Hi VCL team:
I deploy VCL on the VMware Esx 3i server. So it use esx module and need
both -flat.vmdk and meta-data "*.vmdk". However, for some reason, I can only
retrive the -flat.vmdk file. Is there any VCL code can automatically
generate meta-data file based on the image file -flat.vmdk?
Thanks,
Xianqing
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From: "Benjamin Gilbert" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 03:29 PM
To: "Xianqing Yu" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Glenn Ammons" <[email protected]>; "Peng Ning" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Proto-Olive API key
However, when I try to retrive the image, for instance CentOS, from the
Olive server, I can only get the -flat.vmdk, not metadata vmdk.
For maximum compatibility across different virtual machine monitors, the
agreed design for global Olive stores only a raw-format disk image, and
*not* VMM-specific metadata such as the metadata VMDK file. At the May
7th meeting, we discussed having proto-Olive synthesize a metadata VMDK
file for VCL, but it was ultimately agreed that VCL could create this
file itself when retrieving an image from Olive. My understanding is
that VCL already has code to do this; are you able to simply reuse that
code?
--Benjamin Gilbert
