Re: Export checkpoint/bitmap from image on qcow2

2024-01-02 Thread Nir Soffer
On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 3:35 PM João Jandre Paraquetti wrote: > > Hello Nir, > > Thank you for your detailed response, but this process does seem a bit > too complex. > > I've been thinking, wouldn't it be easier to use the process below? > - Create a paused transient dummy VM; > - Create the

Re: Export checkpoint/bitmap from image on qcow2

2023-12-22 Thread João Jandre Paraquetti
Hello Nir, Thank you for your detailed response, but this process does seem a bit too complex. I've been thinking, wouldn't it be easier to use the process below?  - Create a paused transient dummy VM;  - Create the necessary checkpoints on the VM using dumps from the original VM;  - Use Lib

Re: Export checkpoint/bitmap from image on qcow2

2023-12-18 Thread Nir Soffer
On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 4:14 PM João Jandre Paraquetti wrote: > > Hi, all > > I recently started looking into how to create incremental backups using > Libvirt+Qemu. I have already found that, since Libvirt 7.6.0, we can use > the virDomainBackupBegin API to create incremental backups of live VMs

Export checkpoint/bitmap from image on qcow2

2023-11-30 Thread João Jandre Paraquetti
Hi, all I recently started looking into how to create incremental backups using Libvirt+Qemu. I have already found that, since Libvirt 7.6.0, we can use the virDomainBackupBegin API to create incremental backups of live VMs through Libvirt. Using this API we can back up the VM's disks and crea