Re: [libvirt-users] The default location of vm snapshots

On 06/06/2012 07:05 AM, SimpleCloud wrote: Actually, you don't have to do it yourself; libvirt takes care of doing it for you if that's what qemu requires, as part of the libvirt snapshot comand. You can do 'disk-only' snapshots instead of system checkpoints, which are much faster (less than 1 second, while system checkpoints can be seconds or even minutes long). And I'm also hoping to add code that will support external system checkpoints by doing a live migration to file coupled with a disk snapshot, which will hopefully reduce guest downtime compared to the current mandatory guest downtime of the qemu 'savevm' monitor command, but it may require qemu to implement more features first. -- Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org