[Libvir] Snapshots in Libvirt

Dan Smith danms at us.ibm.com
Thu Feb 28 17:07:22 UTC 2008


DV> Can you provide pointers to descriptions of Xen and KVM support
DV> for this ?  My take was that the main problem was with
DV> snapshotting support at the filesystem level, and I think only LVM
DV> has support for this,

My understanding is that qcow2 supports coordinated memory+disk
snapshots of QEMU machines.

This is something that we definitely would like to be able to support
in the CIM providers when it's available in libvirt.  There is already
a DMTF model around providing this sort of functionality.

-- 
Dan Smith
IBM Linux Technology Center
Open Hypervisor Team
email: danms at us.ibm.com
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