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