[libvirt] snapshots += domain description?

Hello, I just encountered a problem with the current snapshot implementation for qemu/kvm: To revert back to a snapshot, the domain description must closely match the domain description when the snapshot was created. If the ram-size doesn't match or the VM now contains fewer CPUs or contains additional disks, kvm will either not load the snapshot or the machine will be broken afterwarts. Is this a known problem? Without looking into the implementation details I think saving the full domain description instead of just a reference to the domain uuid as part of the snapshot description would work better. Or am I supposed to save the domain description myself in addition the the data saved in /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/snapshot/$DOMAIN_NAME/$SNAPSHOT_NAME.xml. I think this is very important feature, because when you - for example - notice that you need additional disk space and would like to include an additional block device, this is your ideal time to take a snapshot you can revert to when you do something wrong. Looking at VMware I see that reverting a VM there will not only revert the disks and ram back to the saved state, but also the description including name, ram size, etc. Any comment or advise is appreciated. Sincerely Philipp Hahn -- Philipp Hahn Open Source Software Engineer hahn(a)univention.de Univention GmbH Linux for Your Business fon: +49 421 22 232- 0 Mary-Somerville-Str.1 28359 Bremen fax: +49 421 22 232-99 http://www.univention.de