On 2009-05-04, Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> As far as I understand, VMware already ships this "gold image" feature >> (as they call it) for Windows environments and claims it to be very >> efficient. > > they call it ,,thin or shallow clones'' "thin or shallow clones" sounds more like sparse images. I believe "linked clones" is the word for running multiple virtual machines off a single gold image. Ref, the "VMware View Composer" section of: http://www.vmware.com/products/view/whatsincluded.html > Looking at the website content, it also revealed that VMware will have a > similiar feature for their workhorse ,,esx server'' in the upcoming > release, however my point still stands. Ship out a service pack for > windows and you 1.5 Gbyte of modified data that is not deduped. "All desktops that are linked to a master image can be patched or updated simply by updating the master image, without affecting usersâ?? settings, data or applications." -jf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
