How to make a vm persistent?

You need to bundle your running instance, upload it and register it to
create a new image. I wrote a guide for doing just that for Eucalyptus
(this is before OpenStack's time ;) at
http://open.eucalyptus.com/participate/wiki/creating-image-existing-vm-centos

Give it a shot.

Everett

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Tim Bordemann <
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> New question #149350 on OpenStack Compute (nova):
> https://answers.launchpad.net/nova/+question/149350
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> I'd like to make a VM persistent, so that changes inside the VM will
> persist even after a restart or failure of it's host. How can I achieve
> that?
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Thanks for your answer. Maybe I didn't make it clear enough, but actually I don't want to rebundle a VM / an image everytime I install or change something inside of it.
Opennebula f.e. offers me to create an image and define it as being "persistent". When I shutdown the VM all the changes are being copied back to the imagestore. Later I can start the same VM again and have the exact same state as after the shutdown.

So you can just rebundle it right before you shutdown (or snapshot it, a feature that should come soon). Also FYI, if the host crashes and comes back up, your instance is not lost. A simple reboot instances command will cause it to restart again.

On Mar 17, 2011, at 3:27 AM, Tim Bordemann wrote:

> Question #149350 on OpenStack Compute (nova) changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/nova/+question/149350
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> Status: Answered => Open
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> Tim Bordemann is still having a problem:
> Thanks for your answer. Maybe I didn't make it clear enough, but actually I don't want to rebundle a VM / an image everytime I install or change something inside of it.
> Opennebula f.e. offers me to create an image and define it as being "persistent". When I shutdown the VM all the changes are being copied back to the imagestore. Later I can start the same VM again and have the exact same state as after the shutdown.
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