Re: [libvirt] kvm savevm/loadvm

Quoting Chris Lalancette (clalance(a)redhat.com): > On 07/20/10 - 05:17:43AM, Serge Hallyn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > virsh has save/restore to do a one-time save+shutdown. But it > > does not expose kvm's savevm/restorevm, which let's me do > > incremental snapshots. Is there a specific reason why that > > is not exposed in libvirt, or is it just that noone has > > implemented it? > > The save/restore API only does a memory snapshot. If you are referring Jinkeys, I guess so - my first tests were confounded by the page cache being reverted and then synced back to disk :) > to the savevm/loadvm/delvm, which take a disk+memory snapshot, then that is > implemented in terms of the libvirt snapshot API. You can start here: > > http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainSnapshotCreateXML Ok, so the snapshot created by virDomainSnapshotCreateXML is not what is used by 'virsh snapshot-create'? Are there any plans of exporting this through virsh?