On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:28:17 +0300 Ronen Hod <r...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Well, we want to support Microsoft's VSS, and that requires a guest > agent that communicates with all the "writers" (applications), waiting > for them to flush their app data in order to generate a consistent > app-level snapshot. The VSS platform does most of the work. > Still, at the bottom line, the agent's role is only to find the right > moment in time. This moment can be relayed back to libvirt, and from > there do it according to your suggestion, so that the guest agent does > not do the freeze, and it is actually not a mandatory component. I think this discussion has reached the point where patches will speak louder than words.