[Libguestfs] [PATCH 5/5] v2v: Add -o rhv-upload output mode.

[Tomáš Golembiovský]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:31:28 +0000
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 01:57:25PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > PROBLEMS:
> >  - Spools to a temporary disk
> >  - Need to specify direct/indirect upload via flag
> >  - Location of ca.pem
> >  - Target cluster
> >  - Delete disks on failure, or rename disks on success?
> >  - Handling of sparseness in raw format disks  
> 
> Actually there are a few more problems I forgot about:
> 
> - How should disks be named?  Currently it uses <guestname>-000, -001 etc

IMHO this is good enough. The names are not that important, the UUID is
the key.

> - How should the OVA file refer to disks?

By disk UUID and volume UUID. You should have the first one from the
upload API and I guess you'll have to query for the volume UUID
afterwards.

    Tomas

> 
> Rich.
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