On 10/24/2012 02:27 PM, Davide Guerri wrote: > Hi all, > it's possible to do an internal snapshot with the --disk-only option (for > qcow2 images)? Not with the current qemu implementation. The qemu folks left room in the 'blockdev-snapshot-async' monitor command to eventually allow for an internal snapshot, but haven't wired it up yet. But if they ever do wire it up, then libvirt is ready to support it. > > The following command > > virsh snapshot-create-as my-dom my-snap my-description > > creates an internal snapshot but the following Also, be aware that Peter just posted patches to allow for creating an external snapshot without using --disk-only, with much better response time than internal snapshots take: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-October/msg01290.html > > virsh snapshot-create-as my-dom my-snap my-description --disk-only > > creates an external snapshot. > -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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