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Re: [Xen-devel] will this clever plan work?

To: "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] will this clever plan work?
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:35:04 +0000
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We have plans to support efficient replication of filesystem snapshots
amongst multiple VMs, which will support the kind of thing you want to
do (push a given OS + app setup to multiple VMs, and have their writes
go to a 'private version' of the filesystem). It'll probably be a
month or two before anything gets checked in though. :-)

 -- Keir

> allow me to play someone with a fractional clue for the moment.
> 
> What I want is a Gentoo based system that can run multiple virtual 
> instances (maybe as many as 10 or 20) of a stock application configuration.
> 
> My fantasy is that I will be able to build a single disk image for all 
> of the basic OS and application to be shared between multiple virtual 
> machines.  Update that single core image using Gentoo magic and be able 
> to have separate partitions holding my application data.
> 
> in the test case, I'm running with a couple of SCSI disks for the OS and 
> a raid 1 (79 GB real storage) for holding all the virtual system "disk 
> images".
> 
> real?  Fantasy?  Roll up my sleeves and work really really hard, 
> documenting as I go to make somebody else's life easier?
> 
> don't worry about disappointing me.  I have already been disappointed 
> with EVMS but only enough to make me go away for six months.  ;-)
> 
> thank you for whatever information you give me.
> 
> ---eric
> 
> 
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