Re: [libvirt] kvm savevm/loadvm
Quoting Chris Lalancette (clalance(a)redhat.com):
On 07/20/10 - 05:17:43AM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> virsh has save/restore to do a one-time save+shutdown. But it
> does not expose kvm's savevm/restorevm, which let's me do
> incremental snapshots. Is there a specific reason why that
> is not exposed in libvirt, or is it just that noone has
> implemented it?
The save/restore API only does a memory snapshot. If you are referring
Jinkeys, I guess so - my first tests were confounded by the page
cache being reverted and then synced back to disk :)
to the savevm/loadvm/delvm, which take a disk+memory snapshot, then
that is
implemented in terms of the libvirt snapshot API. You can start here:
http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainSnapshotCreateXML
Ok, so the snapshot created by virDomainSnapshotCreateXML is not what
is used by 'virsh snapshot-create'? Are there any plans of exporting
this through virsh?
thanks,
-serge