Sorry, forgot to mention that this patch for the virsh man page builds upon the previous patch submitted a few minutes ago. There wasn't an existing vol-create-as command in the man page to build upon otherwise. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift On 06/05/2010 10:13 PM, Justin Clift wrote: <snip>
diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod index cab931c..b1a8544 100644 --- a/tools/virsh.pod +++ b/tools/virsh.pod @@ -782,7 +782,8 @@ source volume is in. I<vol-name-or-key> is the name or UUID of the source volume. =item B<vol-create-as> I<pool-or-uuid> I<name> I<capacity> optional -I<--allocation> I<size> I<--format> I<string> +I<--allocation> I<size> I<--format> I<string> I<--snapshot-source-vol> I<vol-name-or-key> +I<--snapshot-source-format> I<string> Create a volume from a set of arguments. I<pool-or-uuid> is the name or UUID of the storage pool to create the volume @@ -794,6 +795,10 @@ I<--allocation> I<size> is the initial size to be allocated in the volume, with optional k, M, G, or T suffix. I<--format> I<string> is used in file based storage pools to specify the volume file format to use; raw, bochs, qcow, qcow2, vmdk. +I<--snapshot-source-vol> I<vol-name-or-key> is the source backing volume to be used if +taking a snapshot of an existing volume. +I<--snapshot-source-format> I<string> is the format of the snapshot backing volume; +raw, bochs, qcow, qcow2, vmdk. =item B<vol-clone> [optional I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid>] I<vol-name-or-key> I<name> -- 1.7.0.1
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