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Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: vdiskadm convert 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: Author: Susan Kamm-Worrell 1.3 Date of This Document: 01 April, 2009 4. Technical Description Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase %I% %G% SMI This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: vdiskadm convert 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: Author: Susan Kamm-Worrell 1.3 Date of This Document: 1 April, 2009 4. Technical Description 4.1. Summary This fast-track introduces four new commands to vdiskadm, an administrative tool to manage virtual disks. It also introduces a new virtual disk type, vhd, which is the native Microsoft virtual disk format. Minor release binding is requested. The materials directory contains the updated manpage. 4.2. Discussion The vdiskadm import and export commands listed in the fast-track PSARC/2008/597 are now being allowed for general use. The vdiskadm convert and translate commands are new. Virtual appliances consist of configuration and disk data files. To use disk data files they need to be imported to a virtual disk understood by xvm. Also, block devices used as virtual disks can have their data imported into a virtual disk allowing the disk data to be saved or moved to another system. Conversely, a virtual disk created by xvm may need to be exported in order to be used by Virtual Box or other virtualization technologies. Virtual disk data can also be exported to a block device that can be used as the disk for a guest domain. Both import and export commands can convert the disk data to a different virtual disk type during their execution. The vdiskadm convert command allows the user to convert an existing virtual disk to a different type. This is especially helpful in comparison of virtual disk type performance where different virtual disk types containing the same data can be compared. The translate command is a conversion of a disk data file from one virtual disk type to another without creating an actual vdisk. This allows the user to translate disk data from a virtual appliance directly to a zvol or other block device. This may also be useful for converting disk data from a block device directly to a data file for use with Virtual Box. Listed are the new vdiskadm commands: import Imports a file or block device data into a virtual disk export Exports a virtual disk data into a file or block device. convert Converts a virtual disk to a different type translate Translates data from a file or block device to another of a different type 4.3. Interfaces vdiskadm command is Uncommitted. 5. References: PSARC/2006/260 Solaris on Xen PSARC/2008/597 vdiskadm 6. Resources and Schedule: 6.4. Product Approval Committee requested information: 6.4.1. Consolidation or Component Name: ON 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack 6.6. ARC Exposure: open 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