Thanks for clarification!
Am 19.11.2017 um 09:11 schrieb Dietmar Maurer: >>> Could someone with insight into the backup process explain why kvm is >>> started? >> >> It uses the qemu copy-on-write feature to make sure the state is consistent. >> You can immediately work with that VM, while qemu make sure that everything >> is consistent. > > In your case (you stopped the VM before backup) only the KVM process > gets started, but not the VM! > > Note: The KVM process does the backup. > > Hope this is more clear now. > _______________________________________________ pve-user mailing list pve-user@pve.proxmox.com https://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user