As a further explanation to my previous comment you can read Ldom Admin guide which explains how you can use zfs to create snapshots and cloning.
Thanks Vijay Rohit wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to LDom concept. I have some questions about snapshots using LDom. > > 1: IIUIC, Each Ldom can be treated as virtual machine(vmware.. not > exactly same but quite similar) with its > own guest os etc. Does it also support features like snapshot ? Can > snapshot be taken when machine is running ? Or do we have to > shut it down or at least suspend and then take the snapshot ? > > 2: Also from what i have read so far about LDom, we can use > file,normal hard disk, LUN exported from filer as 'disk' in LDom. So > What kind of snapshot possibilities we have got here ? Can we snap the > entire LDom (including ldom configuration, guest OS data, > memory state) in each of these cases ? Here is what i think but i am not sure. > > When disk is file based , it is possible. > When its normal disk and have some file system like ZFS or volume > manager which supports snapshot , it's possible.Otherwise its not > When its LUN from filer , if filer has snapshot capabilities , it is > supported. otherwise not. > > Also my question would be, does LDom admin tool takes care of these > snapshot work in the back end? Or it is the user's responsibility > to manage all these different snapshots. > > 3: What is the preferred way to take LDom snapshots in community ? > > 4:Does Ldom have suspend and resume support at machine level ? > > 5: Is there any way for third party application to access these > snapshots and memory state ? Is there any too/library which provides > interface for accessing such snapshots and other machine state (e.g > memory in case of hibernation). Any links ? > > Thanks, > Rohit > _______________________________________________ > ldoms-discuss mailing list > ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss >
