Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img convert of a backing qcow2 snapshot (THANKS)

2016-07-12 Thread Christopher Pereira
On 12-Jul-16 10:07, Eric Blake wrote: On 07/11/2016 09:42 PM, Christopher Pereira wrote: Hi, Let's say we have this chain: base <--- sn1 <--- sn2 <--- active Can we shutdown the VM and "qemu-img convert sn2 -O qcow2 sn2_new" and rebase active to sn2_new like this: sn2_new <---

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img convert of a backing qcow2 snapshot

2016-07-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/11/2016 09:42 PM, Christopher Pereira wrote: > Hi, > > Let's say we have this chain: > > base <--- sn1 <--- sn2 <--- active > > Can we shutdown the VM and "qemu-img convert sn2 -O qcow2 sn2_new" and > rebase active to sn2_new like this: > > sn2_new <--- active > > ? Yes. As

[Qemu-devel] qemu-img convert of a backing qcow2 snapshot

2016-07-11 Thread Christopher Pereira
Hi, Let's say we have this chain: base <--- sn1 <--- sn2 <--- active Can we shutdown the VM and "qemu-img convert sn2 -O qcow2 sn2_new" and rebase active to sn2_new like this: sn2_new <--- active ? Or is it better practice to blockpull? BTW, is blockpull into an non-active