<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 7:07 AM Matthew Booth <<a href="mailto:mbooth@redhat.com">mbooth@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have a request to do $SUBJECT in relation to a V2V workflow. The use<br>
case here is conversion of a VM/Physical which was previously powered<br>
off. We want to move its data, but we don't want to be powering on<br>
stuff which wasn't previously on.<br>
<br>
This would involve an api change, and a hopefully very small change in<br>
drivers to support it. Technically I don't see it as an issue.<br>
<br>
However, is it a change we'd be willing to accept? Is there any good<br>
reason not to do this? Are there any less esoteric workflows which<br>
might use this feature?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you upload an image of said VM which you don't boot, you'd really be</div><div>accomplishing the same thing, no?</div><div><br></div><div>Unless you want to be in a state where you want the VM to be there but</div><div>sitting in SHUTOFF state</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Matt<br>
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Matthew Booth<br>
Red Hat OpenStack Engineer, Compute DFG<br>
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Phone: +442070094448 (UK)<br>
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