On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 11:41:37AM +0100, Lentes, Bernd wrote: [...] > Hi, > > i found that: https://dustymabe.com/2015/01/11/qemu-img-backing-files-a-poor-mans-snapshotrollback/ > > I tried it and it seemed to work, although my root fs was checked > after the commit, anything else seemed to work. What do you think of > this procedure ? Instead of 'qemu-img create', I'd suggest using `virsh snapshot-create-as` (as shown in my previous email). This will tell libvirt to automatically use the just created QCOW2 overlay. But yeah, one useful bit is to use the `virt-xml` tool to point to the desired disk image (instead of `virsh edit` that I mentioned in the previous email): $ virt-xml F21server --edit target=vda \ --disk driver_type=raw,path=./A.raw -- /kashyap _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users