The 20/10/11, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 08:50:35AM +0200, Philipp Hahn wrote:
Hello,
I sometimes get foreign qcow2 images with embedded snapshots. Without the corresponding XML files libvirt doesn't recognize them. Therefor I created the attached script to fake-create the missing snapshot XML files. Be advised that the XML files might not work in all cases, especially when the configuration was changed between snapshots, but at least I prefer a solution working 95% of the times instead of 0% ;-) And since I already wrote it, others might find it useful as well.
I wonder if we ought to put this in the libvirt source tree under examples/ or something like that. Or turn it into a proper script at tools/virt-qemu-import-snapshots ?
Or a proper command to export/import VMs like # virsh export domainone --no-disks > domainone.dom # (gzip tarball?) # virsh import domainone.dom The tool would do whatever is needed behind the scene (pause, add memory to the archive, etc). We could have the same for pools, networks, etc. -- Nicolas Sebrecht