Re: [libvirt] [RFC]: Snapshot API v2

>> The virsh commands will be: >> virsh snapshot-create [--compress] <dom> <xmlfile> >> virsh snapshot-list <dom> >> virsh snapshot-dumpxml <dom> <name> >> virsh create-with-snapshot <dom> <snapshotname> > > It should be called start-with-snapshot. > > I'm not sure if this start-with-snapshot is a good idea, because I > think this concept is not intuitive to the user. A typical lifecycle > of a domain in the ESX or VirtualBox context may look like this: > > - define a new domain > - start it > - install the OS > - create a snapshot A to have a backup of the state with a clean OS installation > - do some work in the domain > - shutdown the domain > - start the domain again (in ESX or VirtualBox UIs this is done by the > normal start button) > > The user expects to start the domain with the exact same state as at > last shutdown. But with virsh if you use the normal start command as > you normally do you'll get something different. In the context of ESX > or VirtualBox I'm not even sure what the "base image" would be, is it > the empty disk before OS installation? Essentially the normal 'start' operation should always start with the most recently used snapshot, if any. 'start-with-snapshot' is to be used where you want to switch a snapshot which isn't the most recently used.