Wido, would it be possible that the memory is really stored as you suggested in a separate disk file, on the same primary storage as where the ROOTdisk exists. How did you implement this with Xen (I'm not familiar with it at all.) ?
On 5 November 2014 22:01, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > > > On 11/05/2014 07:37 PM, Logan Barfield wrote: > > This is a feature we would like to see as well. > > > > Does KVM have native support for VM/Memory snapshotting? If so what are > > the barriers to getting this implemented? > > > > KVM has the support, but there is a problem with the storage. > > Snapshotting a disk is simple, that's supported by QCOW2, LVM, RBD, etc. > > But when you want to snapshot a VirtualMachine you have to store the > memory contents somewhere. > > That is something that hasn't been worked out. Do you create a > additional 'disk' for storing the memory contents? > > That's the barriers I currently know for implementing it. > > Wido > > > > > Thank You, > > > > Logan Barfield > > Tranquil Hosting > > > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Andrija Panic <andrija.pa...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Anybody ? > >> > >> On 3 November 2014 15:23, Andrija Panic <andrija.pa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >>> Hi guys, > >>> > >>> do we have any plans in some near future to imlement full VM KVM > >>> snapshots. So not single volume snaphost, but a reall VM snapshots. It > is > >>> already there for Xen/VMware, but not KVM. > >>> > >>> Any thoughts, ETA, or difficulties to implement this ? > >>> Any feedback greatly appriciated... > >>> > >>> Best, > >>> > >>> > >>> Andrija Panić > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Andrija Panić > >> -------------------------------------- > >> http://admintweets.com > >> -------------------------------------- > >> > > > -- Andrija Panić -------------------------------------- http://admintweets.com --------------------------------------
