Update on VMware fusion linked clone support?

[Blake Garner]

I'm looking to start a project that will be using linked clones in VMware fusion. Is there any updated estimate when vagrant vmware plugin will support linked clones? 

Thanks,

Blake

[Mitchell Hashimoto]

Blake,

The code for it is actually already in the plugin, but it isn't exposed publicly yet. The reason is mostly due to a missing feature in Vagrant core that I plan on implementing "soon". The urgency though is simply not high for me because linked clones don't actually buy you a lot with Vagrant: they improve the `up` time by maybe 5 seconds or so. But since there is a lot of other slow things Vagrant does (wait for SSH to be available, provision things, etc.) the overall time is barely affected by it.

What is your use case?

Best,

Mitchell

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[Blake Garner]

My use case is about saving some disk (ssd) space. I'm looking to deploy ~10-12 vm's from the same base image as part of some automated testing. 

[Lorenzo Villani]

Is there any update on this?

I have around 5 Windows 2008 Server VMs lying around and each one of them takes around 13 Gb to start with, plus the stuff I install inside each one of them. Saving the space of the base image would be a huge boon and I frequently have to shave some Gb here and there to accomodate my current needs. I would gladly take advantage of linked clones if Vagrant exposes them.

Of course, I'm willing to test beta versions of the VMware plugin which exposes linked clones.

[Jeff Putsch]

Blake,

The use case is saving disk space for VMware images. I routinely have 10 VM images fora development/test environment provisioned. Each image is about 20G of disk space. Linked clones when using VMWare would help greatly.

The automation Vagrant provides is very attractive and I'm preparing to purchase a 3 licenses (I know it's not a huge quantity) to get the VMWare support.

Adding support for linked clones would push it right over the top.

Jeff.

On Friday, January 3, 2014 10:40:08 AM UTC-8, Mitchell Hashimoto wrote:

[Jeff Putsch]

Mitchell,

The use case is all about saving space on smaller development systems (laptops?).

Any update on availability. This is the single feature blocking our purchase of vagrant.

Jeff.

On Friday, January 3, 2014 10:40:08 AM UTC-8, Mitchell Hashimoto wrote:

[Jeff Putsch]

Mitchell,

11 months of silence :(

Any update on when this will be available in Vagrant?

We could really use the space savings linked clones would bring us.

Jeff.

On Friday, January 3, 2014 10:40:08 AM UTC-8, Mitchell Hashimoto wrote:

[Mitchell Hashimoto]

Jeff,

Not yet. Its high on our list to implement and is actually mostly done
internally, we just still haven't found the time to polish out the
user experience around edge cases (for example `vagrant box remove`
the linked clone base while its still in use). Sorry!

Best,
Mitchell

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[Alex Russu]

Hi Mitchell, 

Have you guys managed to finish the linked clone functionality ? 

Best,

Alex