Re: [Libguestfs] Inspection of disk snapshots

2015-03-25 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:43:30PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: [. . .] This makes a copy of the whole disk image. It's also not a consistent (point in time) copy. Oh I see that you're copying the _snapshot_ that you created with libvirt; it's not a whole disk copy. There's still

[Libguestfs] Inspection of disk snapshots

2015-03-23 Thread NoxDaFox
Greetings, I have the following typical scenario: given one or more qcow2 base images I clone them with COW and start the VMs. At a certain point I'd like to inspect them in order to see their evolution compared to the known base images. To do so I was thinking about taking a disk snapshot of

Re: [Libguestfs] Inspection of disk snapshots

2015-03-23 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:41:01PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 04:34:21PM +0200, NoxDaFox wrote: Greetings, I have the following typical scenario: given one or more qcow2 base images I clone them with COW and start the VMs. At a certain point I'd like to