Re: [Qemu-devel] Loading snapshot with readonly qcow2 image

2018-12-14 Thread Michael Spradling
On Dec 13 15:43, Eric Blake wrote: > On 12/13/18 12:33 PM, Michael Spradling wrote: > > > > > My question is has anyone looked into loading snapshots from a backing > > > > file? I have attempted to look through the code and this looks to be > > > &g

Re: [Qemu-devel] Loading snapshot with readonly qcow2 image

2018-12-13 Thread Michael Spradling
On Nov 30 08:58, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/30/18 8:44 AM, Michael Spradling wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would like to resume a snapshot via the command line option -loadvm > > with a read only QCOW2 file. For my use case, I would ideally like to > > load multiple

[Qemu-devel] Loading snapshot with readonly qcow2 image

2018-11-30 Thread Michael Spradling
Hello, I would like to resume a snapshot via the command line option -loadvm with a read only QCOW2 file. For my use case, I would ideally like to load multiple instances of different snapshots from the same QCOW2 image. It seems this is not possible at the moment as when a snapshot is loaded,