On 04/14/2012 05:04 AM, nux@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Joseph L. Casale writes:
>
>> I might be needing to utilize one of the provided virtualization packages either in a headless
>> console only setup of CentOS or on my desktop. I havent used anything but ESXi in ages
>> except virtualbox which I did not like at all. Most of the guests which I will need to run will be
>> wnidows based and last I looked at this a few years ago, windows guests ran pathetic. What
>> are some more current opinions on how windows guests run on the available packages compared
>> to ESXi?
>>
>> The version numbers between the rhel virtio-win drivers and the publicly available ones are
>> significantly different, and it looks like you need a rhel sub for theirs. Anyone know the state
>> of the ones on the fedora repo?
>
> I've been using those drivers from Fedora for quite a while now for M$
> guests, they work fine for what I need.
>
>>
>> Has kvm made snapshots (without lvm) as slick as vmware yet?
>
> Nope, you will have to use lvm; a small price to pay to be "free" ;-)
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I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but ...
I create my images to be used for virtual machines like this (here's one
for a virtual server called "fred"):
qemu-img -f qcow2 fred.img 10G
When I want a snapshot, I power off the server (not sure if I really
need to do that first) and create a snapshot called "joe" like this:
qemu-img snapshot -c joe fred.img
To revert back to it:
qemu-img snapshot -a joe fred.img
And to list all the snapshots for my image:
qemu-img snapshot -l fred.img
I hope this helps,
Charlie
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