2010/9/16 Andre Przywara <andre.przyw...@amd.com>: > TOURNIER Frédéric wrote: >> >> Ok, thanks for taking time. >> I'll dig into your answers. >> >> So as i run relative.img on diskless systems with original.img on nfs, >> what are the best practice/tips i can use ? > > I thinks it is "-snapshot" you are looking for. > This will put the backing store into "normal" RAM, and you can later commit > it to the original image if needed. See the qemu manpage for more details. > In a nutshell you just specify the original image and add -snapshot to the > command line.
-snapshot creates a temporary qcow2 image in /tmp whose backing file is your original image. I'm not sure what you mean by "This will put the backing store into "normal" RAM"? Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
