https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux/

So far its available on Ubuntu, CentOS and Red Hat and Mac OS X.

@Dashrender said:

@black3dynamite said:

@Dashrender said:

@black3dynamite said:

@Dashrender

I've confirmed copy vm doesn't work.

Can you do copy VM without fast disk clone to create a whole new VHD, then delete the old base and original VHDs?

Full Copy work but we shouldn't have to do that.

Oh? Does another platform work differently for base images?

I don't know. LVM SR, base copy is removed after removing the snapshot but EXT SR still leave the base copy after snapshot remover. I wondered if doing a full copy instead of removing the snapshot first does the same thing.

@Dashrender said:

@black3dynamite said:

@Dashrender

I've confirmed copy vm doesn't work.

Can you do copy VM without fast disk clone to create a whole new VHD, then delete the old base and original VHDs?

Full Copy work but we shouldn't have to do that.

@Dashrender

I've confirmed copy vm doesn't work.

@scottalanmiller

By default during XenServer install, we can either keep the default LVM or select Thin (EXT). How does one use XFS instead?

I was able to convert the vm to a template and then create a new one from the template. Just make sure uncheck "Use storage-level fast disk clone" before finish creating the vm.

Snapshots in XenServer 6.5 or XenServer 6.6 using LVM or EXT local storage

When creating snapshots in LVM Local Storage, I only see one and after removing snapshot the base copy is removed.

When creating snapshots in EXT Local Storage it starts out with three vhd files in SR-UUID and after removing snapshot the base copy remains. I see two vhd files in /var/run/sr-mount/<SR-UUID>, one is the original and the other is the base copy.

Using Export/Import fixes it for me but that's time consuming especially with large vhd files.