[one-users] Permanent VMs ?

[Carlos Martín Sánchez]

Hi,

The use case you describe is how onevm stop works, with the only difference
that the VMs are not completely shut down, a checkpoint is also saved.

Regards
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Carlos Martín, MSc
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Alexandros Soumplis <soumplis at ekt.gr>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to hear your suggestion on creating permanent virtual machines.
> The use case I'd like to implement is the following:
> 1. Create a template
> 2. Instantiate a number of VMs from this template
> 3. Configure manually every VM
> 4. Automatically save the VM state so as to be able to shut it down
> completely and bring it back later, in the same state it was (as if it is a
> physical server with local hard disks).
>
> Until now I can only think of implementing this with the use of different
> permanent images and one template per image. Yet this function adds quite a
> lot administrative cost and unless automated is quite error prone.
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> a.
>
>
>
>
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