I have a master virtual machine and I want copy it to other systems and deploy it. I dont want to copy the whole image as it is too big. What are my options here? <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pasik@iki.fi" target="_blank">pasik@iki.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 05:28:26PM +0200, Arindam Choudhury wrote:<br>
> What are the "state of art" of provisioning virtual machine?<br>
><br>
> Can we transfer a LVM virtual machine image?<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>You can use *all* the normal Linux/unix tools, Xen doesn't create any restrictions there.<br>
So feel free to dd the volume to another volume, or use snapshots, or thinprov-snapshots, or whatever you want.<br>
<br>
-- Pasi<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[1]<a href="mailto:pasik@iki.fi">pasik@iki.fi</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 05:51:13PM +0200, Arindam Choudhury wrote:<br>
> > I am using xen hypervisor in fedora 17. I want to use LVM storage<br>
> for<br>
> > domU.<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> LVM volumes work very well out-of-the-box as disks for Xen domUs.<br>
><br>
> -- Pasi<br>
><br>
> > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Joseph Hom<br>
</div><div class="im">> <[1][2]<a href="mailto:jhom@softlayer.com">jhom@softlayer.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > What Xen are you using? OS? XCP? XenServer?<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Also what storage are you using?<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
</div>> > From: [2][3]<a href="mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xen.org">xen-users-bounces@lists.xen.org</a><br>
> > [mailto:[3][4]<a href="mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xen.org">xen-users-bounces@lists.xen.org</a>] On Behalf Of<br>
<div class="im">> Arindam<br>
> > Choudhury<br>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 5:42 AM<br>
> > To: xen users<br>
> > Subject: [Xen-users] provisioning virtual machine<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Hi,<br>
> ><br>
> > I am trying to provision virtual machines to create a virtual<br>
> machine<br>
> > cluster. If I try to transfer a pre-build virtual machine, its<br>
> too time<br>
> > consuming and hard on network. So the idea of using bootstrap or<br>
> > kickstart seems better. Can any body point a good tutorial how to<br>
> do<br>
> > this?<br>
> ><br>
> > Actually I have a master image and I have to copy it on all the<br>
> nodes<br>
> > and create virtual machines. Is there any other way to do it?<br>
> ><br>
> > Regards,<br>
> > Arindam<br>
> ><br>
> > References<br>
> ><br>
> > Visible links<br>
</div>> > 1. mailto:[5]<a href="mailto:jhom@softlayer.com">jhom@softlayer.com</a><br>
> > 2. mailto:[6]<a href="mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xen.org">xen-users-bounces@lists.xen.org</a><br>
> > 3. mailto:[7]<a href="mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xen.org">xen-users-bounces@lists.xen.org</a><br>
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> References<br>
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> Visible links<br>
> 1. mailto:<a href="mailto:pasik@iki.fi">pasik@iki.fi</a><br>
> 2. mailto:<a href="mailto:jhom@softlayer.com">jhom@softlayer.com</a><br>
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