The 20/10/11, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 08:50:35AM +0200, Philipp Hahn wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I sometimes get foreign qcow2 images with embedded snapshots. Without the > > corresponding XML files libvirt doesn't recognize them. Therefor I created > > the attached script to fake-create the missing snapshot XML files. > > Be advised that the XML files might not work in all cases, especially when the > > configuration was changed between snapshots, but at least I prefer a solution > > working 95% of the times instead of 0% ;-) > > And since I already wrote it, others might find it useful as well. > > I wonder if we ought to put this in the libvirt source tree under > examples/ or something like that. Or turn it into a proper script > at tools/virt-qemu-import-snapshots ? Or a proper command to export/import VMs like # virsh export domainone --no-disks > domainone.dom # (gzip tarball?) # virsh import domainone.dom The tool would do whatever is needed behind the scene (pause, add memory to the archive, etc). We could have the same for pools, networks, etc. -- Nicolas Sebrecht -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list