Re: [libvirt-users] Transient VM Usage
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 04:03:20PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
On 11.09.2015 11:34, Mcburn wrote:
> Hey at all,
>
> my Name is Jens-Uwe Sperling. Iám a young student in computer science.
> I want install a VM for testing at home.
>
> i had install a VM with virt-install and the default parameters. (Number
> cpu, mem etc.)
>
> After that i install my OS and configure it.
>
> Now i want work on this image in a transient way.
> So i can use the OS with the given config but every change i do from now
> should not change my image.
>
> I found three ways to do that:
>
> - Make a snapshot from my image and kill the snapshot after using.
Yes, this will work perfectly.
> - Using the transient option in the xml file under disk.
Wow, I didn't even know we have such element.
Don't expect it to actually work with QEMU though :-)
if (disk->transient) {
virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s",
_("transient disks not supported yet"));
goto error;
}
Regards,
Daniel
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