[libvirt] save / restore for KVM

Hello, I try to save a KVM domain which has its hard disk on a LVM volume. I can execute the command to save the domain but restore fails # virsh list Id Name State ---------------------------------- 3 kvm-linux03 running 4 kvm-linux01 running # virsh save kvm-linux01 ./kvm-linux01.ram Domain kvm-linux01 saved to ./kvm-linux01.ram # virsh list Id Name State ---------------------------------- 3 kvm-linux03 running # virsh restore ./kvm-linux01.ram libvir: QEMU error : operation failed: failed to start VM error: Failed to restore domain from ./kvm-linux01.ram I tried to save and restore this domain using kvm directly # /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -m 1024 -boot c -drive file=/dev/virtual/kvm_linux01,if=ide,index=0,boot=on -net nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:00:01:02,vlan=0 -net tap,fd=24,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet3 (qemu) savevm kvm-linux01.ram Device id0-hd0 does not support VM state snapshots (qemu) Here I get an error message which I also found on the qemu homepage: to save a qemu vm the hard disk must be a file using the qcow format. But in the libvirt documentation there is no hint to this limitation. Is it possible to save the state of a kvm vm using physical hard disks with libvirt? Kind regards Matthias Pfafferodt -- Matthias Pfafferodt - http://www.mapfa.de Matthias.Pfafferodt <at> mapfa.de