@olivierlambert Yes, I had been doing this also for quite some time. It was certainly one of the most requested features. It also felt a bit 'brute force' to me so would be nice to use it built in.

@BenjiReis Thanks for the info.

I'll see if I can support into the SDK also, at least for .NET anyway.

So I read about the 'VM snapshot with disk exclusion' feature.

Is this supported at the XAPI level now? If so, how would one go about using it?

Regards

Can any comment on the fact that all of these issues are caused because 'import_raw_vdi' doesn't support Chunked transfers?

This used to be fine casuse the loophole that allowed a massive Content-Length has been closed.

(here: xapi-project/vhd-tool@f978789#diff-a1476b2332c40710d3f1791146a29aeaL484 ).

Regards.

0 jonludlam committed to xapi-project/vhd-tool

XSI-19 locate VHD footer based on file size

I order to locate the footer in a VHD file or stream, the total length
of that file or stream must be known. This commit passes it when it is
known. This depends on a corresponding change in the ocaml-vhd library.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lindig <christian.lindig@citrix.com>