[libvirt-users] Snapshot system: really confusing.

Greetings, I am developing a platform for test and debug use. The typical scenario I want to realize is the following: I run a .qcow2 image via QEMU-KVM, the running OS is not relevant. I want to take several snapshots of both Disk and RAM status; same file, separate files doesn't matter. I just need a way to have consistent information about them (better with XML description) and the data as well. I want to store these snapshots on my storage devices to use them whenever and wherever I want. Is it possible to store a single snapshot providing both the memory and disks state in a file (maybe a .qcow2 file)? Is there any way to get a unique interface which handles my snapshots? I was used to use the virDomainSnapshotCreateXML() defining the destination file in the XML with <disk> fields. After updating libvirt it was not working anymore, I thought was a bug but then I realized it was intentional. The function complains about the fact that the <disk> parameter is not accepted anymore. So I started guessing how to solve reading the API documentation and I fall in a completely nebulous world. For what I got: - virDomainSnapshotCreateXML(): According to flags can take system checkpoints (really useful) and disks snapshots. System checkpoints: What I need but I didn't find any way to retrieve the storage file; I'm only able to get the snapshot pointer, quite useless as from its pointer I can only print the XML description. Disk snapshot: here through the XML description I can specify a target file where to write the information. But I still need the memory status. - virDomainSaveFlags(): No matter how I set the flags, it halts the guest; I need it still running afterward and I think that reverting the domain and restarting for my scenarios is unaffordable. - virDomainCoreDump(): Does what I need for the memory, but doesn't give any XML description and doesn't supply any useful interface to handle it, I just get back an int that represent the exit status of the routine. (other functions really similar) The question is: why all this confusion? I absolutely understand the problematic that realizing a multiplatform snapshots management raises; but I think that for an API purpose what is implemented here is completely confusing the developer. Regards, NoxDaFox.