Re: [Libvir] [PATCH][RFC] Adding Cloning Feature
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:33:24PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Kazuki Mizushima wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've been planing to adding cloning feature.
>Then, I tried to make the patch in the following way.
[...]
Right - didn't see the patch the first time around ...
I think the clone should be done as a libvirt call, rather than in
virsh. Adding stuff to virsh doesn't really help other libvirt users,
nor would it work in the remote case. If it goes into libvirt on the
other hand, then you get remote "for free" (in this case) and other
users of libvirt can implement it, in particular virt-manager.
I disagree :-) I think cloning is a pretty high level operation and
is better off outside the core libvirt API, building on top of the
various APIs libvirt provides (or should provide). The most obvious
set of missing APIs which are needed for clone are the storage management
APIs we've discussed a few times in the past. Sooner or later we're
going to have to tackle those APIs, since even regular guest provisioning
will need them once we have remote support.
Regards,
Dan.
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