On Monday, May 05, 2014 08:52:08 AM J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Monday, May 05, 2014 08:10:55 AM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Am 04.05.2014 21:22, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > > > On Sunday, May 04, 2014 09:03:08 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > >> People run KVM-hosts with storage on ZFS ... nice with the > > >> snapshots etc ... > > > > > > Does KVM support running snapshots? Eg. also storing the memory and > > > registers? I have not found any indication that KVM supports that. > > > > > > Without that, KVM is useless to me. > > > > KVM != ZFS ... you could use ZFS with other hypervisors. > > I know, comment was about KVM. ZFS is on my list, but I don't want to use > files for the VMs. > > > AFAI understand you can take snapshots using libvirt (which in turn > > controls the underlying qemu-kvm etc). > > And I found no evidence on memory taken along with the snapshot. Only disk. > (unfortunately) > I will start a new thread about this with the KVM mailing lists later today.
Update: I just found the following page (didn't show up last year using Google): http://redes-privadas-virtuales.blogspot.nl/2011/03/taking-snapshots-on-kvm-with-libvirt.html Memory-snapshot appears possible as well. Time to start testing this. -- Joost
