Quoting Jason Krieg (jason.kr...@collax.com): > On 07/20/2010 04:24 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote: > >Quoting Daniel P. Berrange (berra...@redhat.com): > >>On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 05:17:43AM -0500, Serge Hallyn wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>virsh has save/restore to do a one-time save+shutdown. But it > >>>does not expose kvm's savevm/restorevm, which let's me do > >>>incremental snapshots. Is there a specific reason why that > >>>is not exposed in libvirt, or is it just that noone has > >>>implemented it? > >>This is included in the 'snapshot' APIs / virsh commands as of 0.8.1 > >>libvirt release > >Oh, excellent! (Alas, my libvirt 0.8.1 doesn't seem to think that > >my qcow2 images can support snapshots, but I"ll have to look into > >that some more) > > > > You will need to set the driver type <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/> > > example: > > <disk type='file' device='disk'> > <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='writethrough'/> > <source file='/var/lib/vm/data/images/debian.img'/> > <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> > </disk> > > Regards, > Jason
Thanks! That worked beautifully. Well, interestingly, the first time I made this change, the '<driver name=' line got cut off so the type and cache options were gone, but once it let those stick, it worked great. thanks! -serge -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
