[libvirt] [FYI] Skript to extract qcow2 snapshot info to libvirt snapshot xml

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 08:50:35AM +0200, Philipp Hahn wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I sometimes get foreign qcow2 images with embedded snapshots. Without the 
> corresponding XML files libvirt doesn't recognize them. Therefor I created 
> the attached script to fake-create the missing snapshot XML files.
> Be advised that the XML files might not work in all cases, especially when the 
> configuration was changed between snapshots, but at least I prefer a solution 
> working 95% of the times instead of 0% ;-)
> And since I already wrote it, others might find it useful as well.

I wonder if we ought to put this in the libvirt source tree under
examples/ or something like that. Or turn it into a proper script
at tools/virt-qemu-import-snapshots ?

Daniel
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