On 08/25/2013 08:30 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > Hi, > > What's the current status of LVM snapshots? Can you > create/revert/commit them with virsh? Or is this an out of band > operation (I have to manually use lvcreate etc...)?
Currently requires out-of-band efforts. > > I've never used LVM-based images mainly because you couldn't overcommit > the storage subsystem but now, with the new thin-provisioning > capabilities of LVM, I'm willing to give it a try. That is, of course, > *only* If I can still have all the nice snapshot capabilities I > currently have with qcow2-based images :) > > Thanks, > Jorge > > p.d I know you can create qcow2 overlays out of an LVM. My question > really is whether libvirt can use/manipulate native LVM snapshots these > days. Patches are welcome to add that functionality into libvirt. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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