From Artem.Kachitchkin@sun.com Fri Sep 19 15:57:09 2008 Received: from sunmail5.uk.sun.com (sunmail5.UK.Sun.COM [129.156.85.165]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8JMv81X005255 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:57:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (brm-avmta-1.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.4.11]) by sunmail5.uk.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id m8JMv3pd017063 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:PSARC-ext@sun.com>; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:57:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0K7G0010ZT372A00@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:57:07 -0600 (MDT) Received: from sca-es-mail-1.sun.com ([192.18.43.132]) by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0K7G00J9CT36Z020@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:57:06 -0600 (MDT) Received: from fe-sfbay-10.sun.com ([192.18.43.129]) by sca-es-mail-1.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m8JMv680016766 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:57:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conversion-daemon.fe-sfbay-10.sun.com by fe-sfbay-10.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) id <0K7G00301SZON100@fe-sfbay-10.sun.com> (original mail from Artem.Kachitchkin@Sun.COM) for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:57:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.146.104.83] by fe-sfbay-10.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTPSA id <0K7G00F8DT33L6B0@fe-sfbay-10.sun.com>; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:57:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:57:18 -0700 From: Artem Kachitchkine Subject: PSARC/2008/597 vdiskadm Sender: Artem.Kachitchkin@sun.com To: PSARC-ext@sun.com Cc: Susan.Kamm-Worrell@sun.com, Mark.Johnson@sun.com Message-id: <48D42E4E.2060408@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080616) Status: RO Content-Length: 4078 I'm sponsoring this fasttrack for Susan Kamm-Worrell. In addition to this proposal, a draft vdiskadm(1m) man page is in the case directory. The timer is set for 09/26/2008. -Artem Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase %I% %G% SMI This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: vdiskadm 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: Author: Susan Kamm-Worrell 1.3 Date of This Document: 19 September, 2008 4. Technical Description 4.1. Summary This fast-track introduces vdiskadm, an administrative tool to manage virtual disks. Minor release binding is requested. 4.2. Discussion VMware and VirtualBox use virtual disk formats that allow the creation of differencing images, sparse files and import of virtual disks. These capabilities give the users the ability to manage disk space, rollback to a previous working disk image and to use previously constructed disks from outside sources. vdiskadm gives Solaris Xen users the ability to use the VMware (vmdk) and VirtualBox (vdi) virtual disk formats when creating virtual disks for use by domains. This allows Solaris Xen users to leverage functionality inherent in those disk formats such as sparse files and snapshots. vdiskadm also supports the raw format. Support for the VHD (Microsoft) format is planned in the future. A virtual disk is a collection of files that comprise the contents and state information of the virtual disk. This group of files varies dependent upon the type of virtual disk created and actions taken on the virtual disk (such as snapshot). These files are opaque to the administrator so all virtual disk actions are based on the virtual disk name. The vdiskadm commands are loosely modeled after the zfs commands, with the exception of the property commands. The property commands are intentionally different so that the user doesn't make assumptions based on the zfs property behavior. The vdiskadm properties are very simple and have no concept of inheritance or source. Listed are the vdiskadm commands: create Creates a virtual disk destroy Destroys the virtual disk or a snapshot snapshot Creates a snapshot of the virtual disk rollback Reverts the virtual disk back to a snapshot clone Clones the virtual disk or a specific snapshot move Moves the virtual disk to a different directory rename Renames the virtual disk or a specific snapshot import Imports a file into a virtual disk export Exports a virtual disk into a file. list Prints the filenames associated with the virtual disk verify Verifies if the given path is a virtual disk prop-get Gets a property of the virtual disk prop-set Sets a property of the virtual disk prop-add Adds a user property to the virtual disk prop-del Deletes a user property from the virtual disk help Prints a general or command specific help message. See vdiskadm(1m) man page in case directory for details. The import and export commands are currently project private and will be documented in a followup fast-track. The clone command generates a new virtual disk independent of the original virtual disk or snapshot. The new virtual disk is a coalesced copy of the original virtual disk or snapshot where any previous snapshots were merged together in the clone. Future work will allow a copy-on-write virtual disk clone to be created from the original virtual disk or snapshot. This would allow the administrator to use a virtual disk based upon a specific snapshot of the original virtual disk without incuring the space required of an independent virtual disk. 4.3. Interfaces vdiskadm command is Uncommitted. 5. References PSARC/2006/260 Solaris on Xen PSARC/2008/579 virt-convert PSARC/2008/596 Block Tap Support for Solaris 6. Resources and Schedule 6.4. Steering Committee requested information 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: ON 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack 6.6. ARC Exposure: open From Artem.Kachitchkin@sun.com Thu Sep 25 10:31:06 2008 Received: from sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com (sunmail2sca.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.234]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8PHV6bo002214 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:31:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (nwk-avmta-2.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.6]) by sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id m8PHV37r004000 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:PSARC-ext@sun.com>; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:31:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0K7R00D4THZTK100@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:31:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sca-es-mail-1.sun.com ([192.18.43.132]) by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0K7R00DUEHZS8T00@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fe-sfbay-09.sun.com ([192.18.43.129]) by sca-es-mail-1.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m8PHV4DS005992 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conversion-daemon.fe-sfbay-09.sun.com by fe-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) id <0K7R00001HSOD900@fe-sfbay-09.sun.com> (original mail from Artem.Kachitchkin@Sun.COM) for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.146.104.83] by fe-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTPSA id <0K7R00EGCHZEMDH0@fe-sfbay-09.sun.com> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:30:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:31:18 -0700 From: Artem Kachitchkine Subject: Re: PSARC/2008/597 vdiskadm In-reply-to: <48D42E4E.2060408@sun.com> Sender: Artem.Kachitchkin@sun.com To: PSARC-ext@sun.com Cc: Susan.Kamm-Worrell@sun.com, Mark.Johnson@sun.com Message-id: <48DBCAE6.4020405@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 References: <48D42E4E.2060408@sun.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080616) Status: RO Content-Length: 244 Reminder: case times out this Friday. Before it can be approved, we need at least one email confirming that it was reviewed by a living person - if you qualify, looked at this case and liked what you saw, please speak up. thank you, -Artem From Darren.Moffat@sun.com Thu Sep 25 10:42:27 2008 Received: from newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (newsunmail1brm.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.62.245]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8PHgR0s002442 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (brm-avmta-1.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.4.11]) by newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id m8PHgP8B063915 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:PSARC-ext@sun.com>; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:42:27 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0K7R0020LIIQ5I00@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:42:26 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gmp-eb-inf-1.sun.com ([192.18.6.21]) by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0K7R00CC5IIO5DE0@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:42:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: from fe-emea-10.sun.com (gmp-eb-lb-1-fe3.eu.sun.com [192.18.6.10]) by gmp-eb-inf-1.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m8PHgOao028472 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:42:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from conversion-daemon.fe-emea-10.sun.com by fe-emea-10.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) id <0K7R00601IGV8G00@fe-emea-10.sun.com> (original mail from Darren.Moffat@Sun.COM) for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:42:24 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.1.219] (h-72-245-120-32.mclnva23.covad.net [72.245.120.32]) by fe-emea-10.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTPSA id <0K7R003TUIIKML20@fe-emea-10.sun.com> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:42:22 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:42:20 +0100 From: Darren J Moffat Subject: Re: PSARC/2008/597 vdiskadm In-reply-to: <48DBCAE6.4020405@sun.com> Sender: Darren.Moffat@sun.com To: Artem Kachitchkine Cc: PSARC-ext@sun.com, Susan.Kamm-Worrell@sun.com, Mark.Johnson@sun.com Message-id: <48DBCD7C.10700@Sun.COM> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 References: <48D42E4E.2060408@sun.com> <48DBCAE6.4020405@sun.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080630) Status: RO Content-Length: 524 Artem Kachitchkine wrote: > > Reminder: case times out this Friday. Before it can be approved, we need > at least one email confirming that it was reviewed by a living person - > if you qualify, looked at this case and liked what you saw, please speak > up. I've looked at it and I'm happy with it. Personally I didn't think it was necessary to make the property commands different from zfs/zpool but I don't care enough given that svccfg uses setprop/getprop/lsprop and is already different. -- Darren J Moffat From Artem.Kachitchkin@sun.com Fri Sep 26 12:40:11 2008 Received: from sunmail5.uk.sun.com (sunmail5.UK.Sun.COM [129.156.85.165]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8QJeA5H014923 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:40:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM (nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.74]) by sunmail5.uk.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id m8QJdxqE004833 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:PSARC-ext@sun.com>; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:40:10 +0100 (BST) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0K7T00A1FIMUBN00@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sca-es-mail-1.sun.com ([192.18.43.132]) by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0K7T004V9IMUEYA0@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fe-sfbay-09.sun.com ([192.18.43.129]) by sca-es-mail-1.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m8QJe6kW004042 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conversion-daemon.fe-sfbay-09.sun.com by fe-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) id <0K7T00C01IF3IH00@fe-sfbay-09.sun.com> (original mail from Artem.Kachitchkin@Sun.COM) for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.146.104.83] by fe-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTPSA id <0K7T00B3NIMUDX20@fe-sfbay-09.sun.com> for PSARC-ext@sun.com (ORCPT PSARC-ext@sun.com); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:40:36 -0700 From: Artem Kachitchkine Subject: Re: PSARC/2008/597 vdiskadm In-reply-to: <48D42E4E.2060408@sun.com> Sender: Artem.Kachitchkin@sun.com To: psarc-ext@sun.com Cc: Susan.Kamm-Worrell@sun.com, Mark.Johnson@sun.com Message-id: <48DD3AB4.6090105@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704 References: <48D42E4E.2060408@sun.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080616) Status: RO Content-Length: 36 This case is now approved. -Artem