On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au> wrote:
Ah, it might solve 90% of your problem, but it doesn't for most people, where a VM image is created from scratch via an ISO image of an installer, and then the VM has lots of patches and upgrades applied over time.
If you had two VMs that had been running for a while and repeatedly upgraded then you could shut down node B, do a reflink copy of node A, and then rsync the files from node B to the new reflink copy. Then you would end up with an identical set of node B files but with reflink for the files that are identical (IE everything that's packaged from the distribution). -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/