On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 7:07 AM Matthew Booth <mbooth at redhat.com> wrote: > I have a request to do $SUBJECT in relation to a V2V workflow. The use > case here is conversion of a VM/Physical which was previously powered > off. We want to move its data, but we don't want to be powering on > stuff which wasn't previously on. > > This would involve an api change, and a hopefully very small change in > drivers to support it. Technically I don't see it as an issue. > > However, is it a change we'd be willing to accept? Is there any good > reason not to do this? Are there any less esoteric workflows which > might use this feature? > If you upload an image of said VM which you don't boot, you'd really be accomplishing the same thing, no? Unless you want to be in a state where you want the VM to be there but sitting in SHUTOFF state > Matt > -- > Matthew Booth > Red Hat OpenStack Engineer, Compute DFG > > Phone: +442070094448 (UK) > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators -- Mohammed Naser — vexxhost ----------------------------------------------------- D. 514-316-8872 D. 800-910-1726 ext. 200 E. mnaser at vexxhost.com W. http://vexxhost.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/attachments/20181130/68aeea50/attachment-0002.html> -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators