From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38572) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJo2N-0007KO-Tb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 10:35:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJo2M-0006uk-NR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 10:35:47 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:14497) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJo2M-0006uY-FQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 10:35:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4DC94D39.9060601@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:35:37 +0200 From: Gerd Hoffmann MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20110510115630.GA1811@amd.home.annexia.org> In-Reply-To: <20110510115630.GA1811@amd.home.annexia.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Virt Tools Survey: What to do about virt-clone List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: virt-tools-list@redhat.com Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virt@lists.fedoraproject.org, "Richard W.M. Jones" , Cole Robinson Hi, > (a) Is cloning guests useful for you or not? Often or infrequently? I'm almost never do that. Usually I use qcow2 copy-on-write images for testing, so I can easily rollback stuff by just zapping and re-creating the copy-on-write image. When I need a fresh VM I install one. Have kickstart in place for RHEL/Fedora guests. Also a custom windows xp install cd which autoinstalls via unattended.txt, so I don't have to babysit the installs. Includes sp3 and some extra drivers (e1000, virtio-net, ...) too. cheers, Gerd