On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 12:46 -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote: > I know you should not do this, but I am just curious. Assume I have a > virtual machine running (git appliance) and I rebuild the image, thus > replacing on the file system the backing for the machine I see in > virt-manager. If I destroy the machine via virt-manager has it attempted > to write bits to the underliing file? If it's backed by a file, normal Unix fs semantics make sure that nothing evil happens: even though you deleted the file in the filesystem, it won't really go away until after it is not being used anymore, i.e. until after the VM shuts down. David _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
