Aaron Metzger <ametzger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Sam Folk-Williams wrote: >> >> >>> Alternatively, is there any other reliable way to make a >>> self-consistent copy of a running Xen virtual machine image for the >>> case where the Xen virtual machine is held in a regular file system >>> file? Is LVM my only option? >> >> For a single file you can just copy the file... with, say, cp or dd. >> > > Thanks for the reply, but I thought that this is not a valid thing to > do for a RUNNING guest. I think that the file will be changing too > rapidly (guest machine swap etc) to get a self-consistent copy using > just "cp" or "dd". Right? Right. -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
