Re: [libvirt] F10: how to save snapshot back to image?
Gerry Reno wrote:
In Fedora 10 I've managed to get libvirt to call the emulator
with
custom arguments so I can invoke -snapshot. I just replaced the
emulator in /usr/bin with my own script which adds the argument and
then calls the original emulator. This works fine. And the snapshot
works fine. I can make lots of changes and when I shutdown and
restart then all the changes are forgotten. Now after I'm satisfied
with some changes I want to save the snapshot back to the image file.
I've tried "Ctrl-Alt-s", but this does not work. I tried finding the
QEMU console, but Serial Console is grayed out in the menu. I don't
know if that would help anyway since this was a raw image and not
qcow2 so I don't think 'savevm' and 'loadvm' would work with raw.
Can someone tell me how to save these snapshots back to the image
file? Thanks.
We need a way to these things:
1. Have sysadmins enable the "monitor" when necessary.
2. Be able to issue multi-Ctrl key (preferably user-defineable)
sequences for performing actions with the hypervisor.
3. Have every aspect of every command available in "monitor" available
from an API.
Right now, I cannot gain access to the "monitor" in libvirt. Therefore
I cannot issue something like "savevm", "loadvm", or "commit
hda" or any
of these commands necessary for working with snapshots. I also am
unable to send Ctrl key sequences such as Ctrl-a-s to write the snapshot
to the image file. Therefore, all routes are closed. The current
approach of just locking everything down is wrong. That decision should
be left up to the user as to how much security they wish to enable in
their particular environment.
Regards,
Gerry