On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:44:14AM +0100, Daniel Schwager wrote: 'xm sysrq s' is not giving you a consistent disk image, because between the time you issue that command, and the time you save the disk/vm more I/O could have been issued. Ultimately if you want consistent disk images, you either need to stop the VM, and clne the disk. Or save the VM state to a file, and then clone the disk. Or use a 'vm snapshot' capability which does those two operations in one (which potentially allows for live snapshotting, which a 2-step process would not). We don't yet support the latter, but you can do save/restore of the VM state to a file, and snapshot the disk at that time. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|