On 07/22/10 - 10:40:44AM, Serge Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Chris Lalancette (clalance@xxxxxxxxxx): > > On 07/20/10 - 05:17:43AM, Serge Hallyn wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > virsh has save/restore to do a one-time save+shutdown. But it > > > does not expose kvm's savevm/restorevm, which let's me do > > > incremental snapshots. Is there a specific reason why that > > > is not exposed in libvirt, or is it just that noone has > > > implemented it? > > > > The save/restore API only does a memory snapshot. If you are referring > > Jinkeys, I guess so - my first tests were confounded by the page > cache being reverted and then synced back to disk :) > > > to the savevm/loadvm/delvm, which take a disk+memory snapshot, then that is > > implemented in terms of the libvirt snapshot API. You can start here: > > > > http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainSnapshotCreateXML > > Ok, so the snapshot created by virDomainSnapshotCreateXML is not what > is used by 'virsh snapshot-create'? Are there any plans of exporting > this through virsh? No, these two things are the same; virsh snapshot-create calls virDomainSnapshotCreateXML (which eventually calls savevm in the qemu monitor). -- Chris Lalancette -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list