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From: Donal Lafferty <donal.lafferty@citrix.com>
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Subject: RE: Where should a system VM image be uncompressed?
Thread-Topic: Where should a system VM image be uncompressed?
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:30:17 +0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edison Su [mailto:Edison.su@citrix.com]
> Sent: 27 June 2013 1:38 AM
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Where should a system VM image be uncompressed?
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Donal Lafferty [mailto:donal.lafferty@citrix.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:01 AM
> > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> > Subject: Where should a system VM image be uncompressed?
> >
> > I noticed that the system VM template is stored in S3 as a .bz2.  E.g.
> > as a .vhd.bz2 when using a Hyper-V hypervisor.
> >
> > Naturally, you can't run a bz2.  Nor can you make a thin copy of it,
> > say if it's a downloaded as a TEMPLATE to a primary storage pool.
> >
> > Should it be uncompressed before it goes into S3, when it is copied
> > from S3 to primary storage, or when a volume is created from the
> TEMPLATE?
> There are two options:
> 1. Put an uncompressed template url into cloudstack db for HyperV system
> vm template, and disable register compressed template/ISO into S3, if the
> zone is for hyperV. If there is no staging area between S3 and primary
> storage, there is no place to unzip template.
> 2. Add a file system supported by hyperV as staging area, so that we can =
copy
> compressed template from S3 into that staging area, then unzip, and impor=
t
> into hyperV. Currently, we can add NFS as staging area, possible you can =
add
> CIFS as staging area also.

 [Donal Lafferty]=20
I would prefer to update the database for now, and introduce a staging area=
 in the future.

There are NuGet packages from the authors of bzip2 and zlib that would allo=
w an agent to uncompress files on a CIFS share provided their licensing ter=
ms are acceptable.

DL