Hello Stefan, Thank you for your answer. Just one more question: If, while my "snapshot" vms are running, the main disk is modified by a non "snapshot" vm? For example, installing some extra software.. this can freeze vms or something?
Regards, Pahim On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Amador Pahim <ama...@pahim.org> wrote: >> Is a bad idea if I run multiples "qemu" vms pointing to the same disk >> img using "-snapshot" parameter? What kind of problem may I have? > > It should work fine. -snapshot means that QEMU creates a temporary > qcow2 file backed by the disk image you've given it. No changes will > be made to your disk image - it is read-only. > > Stefan >