IO while taking a disks-only snapshot

2022-11-21 Thread Or Ozeri
Hi, Assume I'm running a VM with the qemu driver in libvirt, with multiple disks, with no guest agent. Now if I take a disks-only snapshot of that active VM. I see that under the hood, libvirt is issuing a qmp transaction with blockdev-snapshot command per each disk. I also see that qmp_transact

Re: redirect console to file and restore user owner on domain destroy

2022-11-21 Thread Darragh Bailey
I may have stumbled onto a partial workaround through experimenting with the `append` attribute. It appears that if something like the following XML is used: Combined with creating and truncating the target file in the code before sending the XML,

Re: [Question] Which qcow2 options could be inherited to snapshot/blockcopy?

2022-11-21 Thread Meina Li
Hi Peter, I can learn a lot from what you said. Thank you very much. Best Regards, Meina Li On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 5:30 PM Peter Krempa wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 11:22:40 +0800, Meina Li wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to find out which qcow2 options could be inherited to > > snap

Re: [Question] Which qcow2 options could be inherited to snapshot/blockcopy?

2022-11-21 Thread Peter Krempa
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 11:22:40 +0800, Meina Li wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to find out which qcow2 options could be inherited to > snapshot/blockcopy and then test them. > > From https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/qapi/block-core.json#L4720 we > can know all the qcow2 options. As far as I

Re: qemu-block-rbd be removed ?

2022-11-21 Thread Peter Krempa
On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 08:41:44 +0100, vrms wrote: Firstly please don't start a conversation by replying to an existing one as it gets threaded improperly. > I am running qemu/kvm on a Manjaro Laptop. There is a thing with a package > named ceph-libs being removed from manjaro repos apparently.