A number of hypervisors have a mode in which changes made to storage
are not persisted across a reboot of the VM. qemu uses the -snapshot
flag; VMware refers to this functionality as non-persistent disk[1]. Is
this functionality something that is interesting to libvirt?
Dave
[1]
http://www.virtuesofvirtualization.com/2006/10/magic-of-nonpersistent-dri...