Hi, I am trying to implement snapshot saving and loading from command line using qemu. I am using both the drive and disk options as follows.
<qemu exe> \ --disk <path to disk file> \ ...other options \ -drive file=<path to drive file>, index=0,media=disk,snapshot=on,if=ide,type=drive,cache=writethrough I am not running latest version of qemu, it is an older branch. Some details about the issue I am facing are as follows. As seen from info blocks command, The disk file is mapped to virtio block device The drive file is mapped to ide0-hd0 block device When I savevm, qemu saves the snapshot and I can see it in the monitor console. Also, savevm tries to modify the file provided in the --disk option rather than the one provided in -drive option (which is what I want to do). After the above, I issue "commit". Restarting qemu and "info snapshots" command lists only one block device = virtio Also, no snapshots are shown. Any pointers will be helpful. Regards, UE
