Comments on: compression using fifo’s

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:57:46 +0000

To export just leave the filename blank as in this example:
xe vm-export vm=VM-UUID filename= | gzip -c > /mnt/vm.xva.gz

To import use /dev/stdin as filename:
gunzip -c /mnt/vm.xva.gz | xe vm-import sr-uuid=SR-UUID filename=/dev/stdin

Alejandro — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:56:07 +0000

To export just leave the filename blank as in this example:
xe vm-export vm= filename= | gzip -c > /mnt/vm.xva.gz

To import use /dev/stdin as filename:
gunzip -c /mnt/vm.xva.gz | xe vm-import sr-uuid= filename=/dev/stdin

Reno — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:53:56 +0000

In citrix xen server 5.6.1 which I am using, there is option compress=true, gzip is involved then.

xe vm-export vm=UUID compress=true filename=xxx