RE: [Xen-users] Qcow utilities

[Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Hammerman wrote:

>         The main goal is a to use a shared root image for a set of 
> Virtual Machines. Management thinks this will keep the machine more 
> 'in sync'.
It won't, not unless you use it AS A SHARED FILESYSTEM

If you use any form of COW image then each guest will diverge - 
update a file on each guest and each guest will have a separate copy 
of the file. You CANNOT update the base image as that would 
immediately corrupt ALL the images that rely on it.
If you use a shared filesystem then you could stop the guests, update 
the shared filesystem, and restart the guests - though you may 
actually get away with guests running depending on what you are 
updating.

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