Re: [Qemu-devel] Virt Tools Survey: What to do about virt-clone

2011-05-10 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, (a) Is cloning guests useful for you or not? Often or infrequently? I'm almost never do that. Usually I use qcow2 copy-on-write images for testing, so I can easily rollback stuff by just zapping and re-creating the copy-on-write image. When I need a fresh VM I install one. Have kic

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virt Tools Survey: What to do about virt-clone

2011-05-10 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 10 May 2011 13:56, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > So I'd like feedback from "virt-clone next generation" users: > > (a) Is cloning guests useful for you or not?  Often or infrequently? I clone guests quite often. > > (b) Do you currently use virt-clone to clone guests? no > > (c) Do you have

[Qemu-devel] Virt Tools Survey: What to do about virt-clone

2011-05-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I've volunteered for the task of fixing virt-clone[0]. There are a number of bugs which need to be addressed. Unfortunately the current virt-clone is broken-by-design since it cannot make changes inside the guest. [0] http://linux.die.net/man/1/virt-clone The bugs boil down to what Microsoft