On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Nux! <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07.04.2014 15:24, Lalatendu Mohanty wrote: > >> On 04/07/2014 07:28 PM, Nux! wrote: >> >>> On 07.04.2014 14:41, Lalatendu Mohanty wrote: >>> >>>> RPMs for latest libvirt upstream release i.e. version 1.2.3 is >>>> available for CentOS is avalable at Yum repo[1] . >>>> >>>> Libvirt 1.2.3 has major bug fixes for GlusterFS and also supports >>>> qemu/libvirt snapshots on GlusterFS. The change log can be found >>>> here[2]. >>>> >>>> However for snapshot support from QEMU, we need QEMU 2.0, which will >>>> be released in couple of weeks from the upstream project. >>>> >>>> [1] http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/libvirt/CentOS/ >>>> [2] http://libvirt.org/news.html >>>> >>> >>> Hello Lala, >>> >>> Where can I read more about these qemu/gluster snapshots? How are they >>> different from the Qemu/qcow2 snapshots? >>> >>> Lucian >>> >>> Hey Lucian, >> >> Sorry I was not clear in my previous mail. The snapshot is the same >> Qemu/qcow2 snapshots. Now this is supported on VM images run through >> libgfapi+GlusterFS. Previously the libvirt/qemu snapshots were >> supported for fuse mounted gluster volumes. >> >> Thanks, >> Lala >> > > Oh, this is quite a big deal. So one can't take snapshots of VMs running > on libgfapi right now unless they use Qemu 2.0?
AFAIK, QEMU (with libgfapi) supported offline (driven by qemu-img) as well as live snapshot (using snapshot_blkdev qemu monitor cmd) of a running VM diskimage right from QEMU-1.3. Regards, Bharata.
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