Hey at all, thank you very much Michal Privoznik, Eric Blake and Michal Privoznik for the fast answer :) and your opinion. I try out the snapshot method over the weekend. So have a nice Weekend :) On 11.09.2015 16:36, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 04:03:20PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: >> On 11.09.2015 11:34, Mcburn wrote: >>> Hey at all, >>> >>> my Name is Jens-Uwe Sperling. Iám a young student in computer science. >>> I want install a VM for testing at home. >>> >>> i had install a VM with virt-install and the default parameters. (Number >>> cpu, mem etc.) >>> >>> After that i install my OS and configure it. >>> >>> Now i want work on this image in a transient way. >>> So i can use the OS with the given config but every change i do from now >>> should not change my image. >>> >>> I found three ways to do that: >>> >>> - Make a snapshot from my image and kill the snapshot after using. >> Yes, this will work perfectly. >> >>> - Using the transient option in the xml file under disk. >> Wow, I didn't even know we have such element. > Don't expect it to actually work with QEMU though :-) > > if (disk->transient) { > virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", > _("transient disks not supported yet")); > goto error; > } > > > > Regards, > Daniel _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users