[Users] engine-image-uploader and /tmp size problem on fedora18

[Itamar Heim]

On 05/02/2013 01:10 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Alon Bar-Lev  wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I notice that only one of the two VMs contained in the .ovf archive
>>> was uploaded (c2).
>>> Does engine-image-uploader support more than one VM in ovf file or do
>>> I need to leave inside it only the files related to one VM at a time?
>>>
>>> Gianluca
>>>
>
> Ok.
> I extracted the ovf and removed the files of one VM (c2) and then
> created a new ovf and was able to upload the other VM now (infra)
> I was also able to import the VM, add a nic to it and start ok on the
> new infrastructure.
>
> SO far so good.
> This way implies power off of the source VM. Is there a way to export
> a running VM or is it on the roadmap?
> Or some way to make a snapshot of a running VM and export it without
> powering down the original VM?


you can take a live snapshot.
i don't remember if we allow exporting a snapshot of a running VM (no 
technical reason not to).
if we for some reason don't, you could clone the snapshot to a VM, then 
export that VM (ugly, so i hope we support exporting a snapshot of a 
running VM)