At Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:17:25 +0800, jidalyg_8711 wrote: > Thanks your reply! > > I'll try it again. > > Some other questions: > 1,The base image need to be a snapshot ? Why can't be a raw image? > For local disk images ,The following commands worked well: > $ qemu-img -b debian-base.img -f qcow2 debian_inc.img To simplify the implementation of Sheepdog. I guess there is no technical problem to use a file image as a backing file of a Sheepdog vdi. If there are many requests for the feature, I'm not against to support it. > > 2, I have do somethings and I found the following output: > > [root at sim92 store_dir]# collie cluster info > Waiting for other nodes joining > Ctime Epoch Nodes > 2011-01-11 14:07:26 12 [10.60.1.93:7000, 10.60.1.92:7000, 10.60.1.94:7000] > > And I can't use the sheepdog now . Why this happened ? I think you stopped Sheepdog without running 'collie cluster shutdown'. If so, see http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/sheepdog/2011-January/000827.html to fix the cluster state. Thanks, Kazutaka > > Thanks you very much ! > > yaronli > 2011-01-12 > > > > jidalyg_8711 > > > > 发件人： MORITA Kazutaka > 发送时间： 2011-01-12 19:50:59 > 收件人： jidalyg_8711 > 抄送： sheepdog > 主题： Re: [Sheepdog] questions about qemu-img and sheepdog > > At Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:49:03 +0800, > jidalyg_8711 wrote: > > > > [1 <multipart/alternative (7bit)>] > > [1.1 <text/plain; gb2312 (base64)>] > > > > Hi, I've used the sheepdog .It is the great project! > > > > I have one question about qemu-img and sheepdog, > > Does sheepdog support the growable disk images (their size increase as non empty sectors are written),Like as : > > > > $qemu-img -b sheepdog：debian -f qcow2 sheepdog : debian_inc > A snapshot tag is missing for the base image, and you can use only a > raw format for Sheepdog. > > > > sheepdog : debian is the based image > > sheepdog : debian_inc is the increase image. > > > > I tried this command ,but failed. So how the sheepdog create the increase images? > Try the followings: > 1. Create a base image > $ qemu-img convert ./image.raw sheepdog:debian > 2. Take a snapshot to use as a base image > $ qemu-img snapshot -c base sheepdog:debian > 3. Create a cloned image from sheepdog:debian:base > $ qemu-img create -b sheepdog:debian:base sheepdog:debian_inc > See also: > http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Sheepdog/Getting_Started > Thanks, > Kazutaka > [1.2 <text/html; gb2312 (base64)>] > > [2 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>] > -- > sheepdog mailing list > sheepdog at lists.wpkg.org > http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/sheepdog |