Re: [libvirt-users] Live snapshots of a single block device
On 05/23/2014 12:16 PM, Andrew Martin wrote:
> --quiesce requires the guest to be running to work, while
--memspec
> forceably stops the guest (the migration algorithm must pause, even if
> --live minimizes the pause to a fraction of a second).
Would calling snapshot-create-as with --disk-only and --quiese still succeed
on a VM that is stopped (since the disk would already be consistent, it would
just call "qemu-img create")?
For an offline guest, --disk-only makes no difference (there is no
memory to worry about); and you are correct that the disk is consistent
(assuming the OS has a clean shutdown before going offline). Yes,
calling 'qemu-img create' is basically what libvirt does for an offline
external snapshot.
However, a paused/stopped guest cannot respond to a quiesce request (the
guest agent only works if the guest is running), so your attempt to use
--quiesce would fail; you'd have to omit the parameter if the guest is
stopped.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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