Re: [Xen-API] VDI import/export with deltas

[Bob Ball <bob.ball@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> http://wiki.xensource.com/wiki/Disk_import/export_APIs

This is great, but I think we're missing the ability to pull a VHD in or push a 
VHD out.

The OpenStack case needs to call a vm-import giving a URL to pull a VHD from, 
and a vm-export to push a VHD out to.
In particular I think we need to set specific headers as well, as 
authentication, so I'd like to propose the following as a hopefully simple 
extension:

xe vdi-export uuid=$VDI format=vhd dest=http://192.168.0.1:5000/... 
headers:arbitrary_string=$AUTH_TOKEN

xe vdi-import uuid=$RESTORE format=vhd source=http://192.168.0.1:5000/... 
headers:arbitrary_string=$AUTH_TOKEN

OpenStack also has a case for using bittorrent to download the VDI from peers 
rather than the central server, but I don't see how to accomplish that with the 
current proposal without requiring double the disk space as we'd need to 
download it then push it into XS.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Bob 

> There's still time before 2.0 to change how these work, so your comments
> and criticism would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> Dave
> 
> [1] https://github.com/xapi-project/xapi-project/issues/1
> [2] https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/issues/1778
> [3] https://github.com/xapi-project/vhd-tool/pull/14
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