[xen-tools] Re: xen-duplicate-image removed

[Steve Kemp]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 08:57:18PM +0200, Arnaud JAYET wrote:

> I wonder why xen-duplicate-image was removed from xen-tools.

  Because it was a real pain to make it work correctly and
 with the new --copy / --tar options to xen-create-image I
 decided it wasn't required.

> It ease to deploy and install quickly preconfigured servers (template 
> domU servers).

  For that case I'd suggest creating one instance with
 xen-create-image, then modifying it as desired.  Finally
 you can mount the image, (the loopback, or the lvm partition),
 and tar it up.

  Then to create a clone of it use:

    xen-create-image --tar /path/to/image.tar --options..

  That will unpack the tar file you've created and just update
 the networking, etc.

  I figured this would cover 95% of use cases (along with --copy)
 and it meant I didn't need to maintain two pieces of code with
 a lot of duplication.

  I could be persuaded to return it, but I'd need a good argument.


  See also: #377984 :

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377984

Steve
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