[et-mgmt-tools] Is it possible / wishlist

Christopher Dale christopher.dale at incommon.us
Thu Feb 12 03:21:35 UTC 2009


Thanks Cole.  It would be a very useful feature for building clusters on
laptops.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> wrote:

> Christopher Dale wrote:
> > What is the proscribed method for virt-clone if the target you want to
> > use is a snapshot, not a cloned image?
> >
>
> virt-clone doesn't have any snapshot support at the moment.
>
> Libvirt's storage support now has some snapshot awareness (though I'm
> not fully certain yet how it all works). If libvirt eventually gets a
> storage volume clone API, we could probably tie the two together and
> offer an option to use a snapshot as a clone, rather than a full device
> duplication.
>
> - Cole
>
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