[Libguestfs] [PATCH FOR DISCUSSION ONLY] virt-resize tool for resizing virtual machines.

[Dennis Krul]

On 21 mrt 2010, at 12:01, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:55:47AM +0100, Dennis Krul wrote:
>> On 19 mrt 2010, at 19:00, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Unfinished patch to implement virt-resize.
>>>
>>> The concept is solid.  It just needs a little more thought as to
>>> exactly how containers [of containers] expand and shrink in response
>>> to user requests.
>>>
>>> Rich.
>>
>> Cool :)
>>
>> I did some testing, but I was unable to resize my test image. Is this
>> stuff actually functional?
>
> No, it's unfinished ...  It doesn't write anything out to the
> destination because I need to think some more about how containers
> shrink relative to filesystems.

Ah ok, no problem. I was just curious to see how far you got :)

I don't have further remarks on your proposal. It looks solid indeed.

If you have something that needs testing with various images, I'd be  
more than willing to help.

I'm not very proficient in perl though, so I doubt I could be of any  
help with the actual implementation, except perhaps the occasional  
bugfix.

(Just wondering: Why didn't you use python to write the virt-tools?  
Personal preference or because of technical reasons (bindings et al)?)

Thanks and good luck

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Dennis Krul <dennis at tilaa.nl>