Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] virsh: clarify snapshot --live

From: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao(a)gmail.com&gt; In libvirt, snapshot means disk snapshot. snapshot --live is more like VM checkpoint. Make it clear in virsh.pod. Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao(a)gmail.com&gt; --- tools/virsh.pod | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod index fc6a680..30e6bf3 100644 --- a/tools/virsh.pod +++ b/tools/virsh.pod @@ -3896,8 +3896,9 @@ this. If this flag is not specified, then some hypervisors may fail after partially performing the action, and B<dumpxml> must be used to see whether any partial changes occurred. -If I<--live> is specified, libvirt takes the snapshot while the guest is -running. This increases the size of the memory image of the external +If I<--live> is specified, libvirt takes the snapshot(checkpoint) while +the guest is running. Both disk snapshot and VM memory snapshot will be took. +This increases the size of the memory image of the external checkpoint. This is currently supported only for external checkpoints. Existence of snapshot metadata will prevent attempts to B<undefine> --