[please don't top-post on technical lists] On 06/06/2012 06:22 PM, Xing.x.Gao wrote:
you could try: snapshot-create-as guest guestsnap --disk-only
Yes, this is...
Is there any way to do "live" snapshotting for running domain or reduce pause time?
You can do 'disk-only' snapshots instead of system checkpoints, which are much faster
...precisely what I meant by 'disk-only' snapshots. As long as you don't need the associated VM state (that is, if you are okay that reverting to the snapshot implies that any in-flight memory that has not been flushed to disk will be lost, and that the disks will probably need fsck), then this is indeed the way to go. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org