On Jul 6, 2014, at 10:22 PM, Rafi Khardalian <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All --
> 
> It seems as though it would be beneficial to use virDomainSave rather than 
> virDomainManagedSave for suspending instances.  The primary benefit of doing 
> so would be to locate the save files within the instance's dedicated 
> directory.  As it stands suspend operations are utilizing ManagedSave, which 
> places all save files in a single directory (/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save by 
> default on Ubuntu).  This is the only instance-specific state data which 
> lives both outside the instance directory and the database.  Also, 
> ManagedSave does not consider Libvirt's "save_image_format" directive and 
> stores all saves as raw, rather than offering the various compression options 
> available when DomainSave is used.
> 
> ManagedSave is certainly easier but offers less control than what I think is 
> desired in this case.  Is there anything I'm missing?  If not, would folks be 
> open to this change?

+1

Vish

> 
> Thanks,
> Rafi
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