----- On Feb 15, 2018, at 12:53 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy kchamart@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 > > > -- Hi Kashyap, thanks for your quick and detailed answers. Just to be complete. The procedure in the above mentioned link does work with my old software ? pc59093:~ # rpm -qa|grep -iE 'libvirt|kvm' libvirt-cim-0.5.12-0.7.16 libvirt-python-1.2.5-1.102 libvirt-client-1.2.5-15.3 kvm-1.4.2-47.1 sles-kvm_en-pdf-11.4-0.33.1 libvirt-1.2.5-15.3 Bernd Helmholtz Zentrum München _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
