On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 01:52:46PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 05/10/2012 13:40, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto: > > I'm also concerned about the time is takes to run the external > > 'qemu-img create' command, which is non-trivial in some versions > > of qemu. In libguestfs, every millisecond counts. > > qemu-img create is a thin wrapper for bdrv_create that would be done > anyway by QEMU. So there is no difference apart from the cost of > loading the binary. Right -- that's the point though :-( Using qemu snapshot=on is free, since we've launched qemu already. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list