Hi,
I have a setup with multiple virtual machines (VMs) running on one host,
each with a saved state. All VMs share the same parent, which is located on
a shared drive. Whenever I restore any VM using virsh restore, the parent
is dropped from the system cache, causing all data to be downloaded from
the shared drive again. This results in unnecessary network traffic, even
though the parent changes very rarely. However, if I create a child from
the parent and call virsh create to create a new VM, the parent is never
dropped from the system cache.
Is this expected behavior? Should the parent be retained in the system
cache during a virsh restore operation? Are there any configurations or
settings that can prevent the parent from being dropped from the cache?
thanks
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