F15 / VirtualBox

Jeroen van Meeuwen kanarip at kanarip.com
Sun Jun 12 22:55:12 UTC 2011


Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:09:19PM +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 
wrote:
> > while you're thinking about what to do in the area of virt-clone /
> > cloning VMs, I recon it would be nice not only to be able to clone
> > VMs that have image files, but also those that have a Logical Volume
> > as their disk device.
> 
> What I'd really like to see would be fast/lazy cloning of LVs:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638188

That would certainly be a good basis for efficiency and performance 
enhancement of a VM clone for which the storage is in LVM, but with or without 
LVM lvlazyclone, to virt-clone or to virt-clone --lazy isn't a showstopper is 
it?

Kind regards,

-- kanarip


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