{"id":16,"date":"2005-10-25T19:44:21","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T02:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intr.overt.org\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2005-10-25T19:44:21","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T02:44:21","slug":"packaging-up-a-virtual-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Packaging up a Virtual Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/joeshaw.org\/2005\/10\/25\/184\">Joe&#8217;s blog<\/a> doesn&#8217;t do comments, I&#8217;ll have to reply this way \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we probably should have a FAQ somewhere that lists all the files you need to care about, but the reality is that tarring up the directory is good enough. It&#8217;s 2.8gb but almost all of that is stuff you want. The bits you can afford to skip are a few kilobytes at best. If you really want, I can put a list together &#8211; I don&#8217;t remember everything off the top of my head right now, but just grabbing the directory is your best bet.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to copy a VM but discard all the snapshots, then you should first do a full clone of the VM and send the result to the other party. The full clone operation consolidates all the snapshot delta disks, and because it&#8217;s a full clone, there&#8217;s no dependency on the original VM.<\/p>\n<p>As for the crash, if you read down through my blog, you&#8217;ll find the <a href=\"http:\/\/intr.overt.org\/blog\/?p=9\">entry<\/a> about the librsvg bug; guess what: you just hit it. But I was told this evening that the update *just* came out, so go run your SuSE update and get the fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packaging up a virtual machine is trivial to the first approximation; just tar up the directory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-joy-of-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}