Re: [libvirt-users] Dual-boot and also use raw disk in virtual machine

On 06/07/2010 02:39 PM, Richard Walker wrote: <snip> Interesting. Hope you've taken a backup (image the hdd or something). :) I wonder if it's possible to use a dedicated hdd as a snapshot backing store, with the copy on write difference file being else where. ie. /some/location/snapshot1.qcow2 That would let you use a VM with "/some/location/snapshot1.qcow2" as it's hard drive, and wouldn't then make any changes to your actual (working) dedicated windows hdd. Lets you try things in a vm easily without ruining the primary image. Disk i/o performance in the vm could be less than great though. :/ Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- Salasaga - Open Source eLearning IDE http://www.salasaga.org