Hi Uri, On 12/3/07, Uri Lublin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf > of Slohm Gadaburi > > Sent: Mon 03/12/2007 12:10 > > To: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [kvm-devel] VM Snapshots ? > > > I want to use VM Snapshots.. But I read QEMU's docs saying > > that one must use qcow2 file image for that. The problem is that > > My Ubuntu 7.04-based qemu-img (v 0.8.2) has only qcow... > > With qemu v 0.8.2 one can save/load the VM state into/from a file (using > monitor commands savevm/loadvm) > This is not a "real" VM snapshot, as the disk image changes when the guest > runs, but it works fairly well.
Can you please elaborate on that ? Can I use savevm to save the current running state of my machine, and later restore the exact state using loadvm (with qcow) ? Let's say I use -snapshot mode, so I am guranteed my image does not change... so is this a real VM snapshot ? thanks a lot slohm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
