Re: [Libvir] Next features and target for development
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:06:29PM +0200, Till Maas wrote:
On Di Juli 10 2007, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> Now is a good time to suggest new potential directions, and I certainly
> forgot some obvious points, so what did I missed ?
What I am missing in open source virtualization solutions is the possibility
to make snapshots in a tree structure and to freely jump from one state to
another. VMWare workstation provides this feature. And in addition it would
be nice to clone a virtual machine from a snapshot, i.e. select a snapshot
and start a new instance starting from that state.
Well the problem is snapshotting the storage devices and doing this
as efficiently as possible.
I admit that I do the
1/ stop the domain
2/ rsync -vP /xen/domain.img backup: /xen/domain.img
a bit too often to my taste and I would love something nicer, but at this
point we need better support at the hypervisor and integration with system
specific support. Not a piece of cake, and not something which can be
attacked just at the libvirt level.
At the moment it's a bit out of reach unfortunately,
Daniel
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