XE vm-export compress options

DustinB

What are the two options for compression from the cli? Obviously I can use xe vm-export vm=uuid filename=path compress=true but within XO there are two options, how can I call those via the cli?

Danp

Have you tried compress=zstd?

See these commits --

https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/commit/270185d9dcaaad00899722112058fccda814d505

https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/commit/bce0bf05e587ca2df46fd78b57d4553a03887b92

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julien-f committed to vatesfr/xen-orchestra

feat(xen-api/examples/export-vm): add --gzip and --zstd

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badrAZ committed to vatesfr/xen-orchestra

feat(xo-server): provide zstd compression for VM export (#3878)

See #3773

Strebor

@Danp

When xe vm-export is run with compress=zstd, does the xe vm-import command need to be told that compression was used, or does the xe vm-import command see that zstd was used?

Danp

@Strebor AFAICS, xe vm-import doesn't offer an option to specify the compression level, so I am going to assume that it handles this automatically.

olivierlambert

It's handled automatically.

Strebor

@olivierlambert

THANKS! That is a great addition!

olivierlambert

Well, to be fair, it's pretty logical: you only have the control on compression format when you export. When you import, you already have your file in a previously selected format. So yeah, it's up to you to detect it, and that's what we do when we added zstd compression

Strebor

@olivierlambert

Haha, I lost belief in 'logical' many years ago. What I think is logical and what others think is logical, often is very different
So, I still think it's great, cause it takes one command out of my CLI VM import pipe line