On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Lukas Laukamp <lukas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think that it must be possible to create an image with a size like the > used space + a few hundret MB with metadata or something like that. the 'best' way to do it is 'from within' the VM the typical workaround is to mount/fsck a LVM snapshot (don't skip the fsck, or at least a journal replay) beyond that, there are a few utilities for specific filesystems: PartImage [1], dump/restore [2], and i'm sure some others. I don't know how would these behave with unclean images, which is what you get if you pull the image under the VM's feet. [1] http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page [2] http://dump.sourceforge.net/ -- Javier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
