Re: Best choice for copy/clone/snapshot

2009-05-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Ross Boylan wrote: Thanks for all the info. I have one follow up. On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 10:07 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: As I install software onto a system I want to preserve its state--just the disk state---at various points so I can go back. What is the best

Re: Best choice for copy/clone/snapshot

2009-05-13 Thread Avi Kivity
Ross Boylan wrote: First, I have a feeling this might be a question I could ask on a qemu list. It is. Is there a way for me to tell which questions should go where? If the question is equally valid for qemu and qemu-kvm, then qemu-devel is the correct forum. Is it OK to ask here?

Re: Best choice for copy/clone/snapshot

2009-05-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for all the info. I have one follow up. On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 10:07 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: As I install software onto a system I want to preserve its state--just the disk state---at various points so I can go back. What is the best way to do this? LVM snapshots. Read

Re: Best choice for copy/clone/snapshot

2009-05-13 Thread Charles Duffy
Ross Boylan wrote: Or do you mean I should back each virtual disk with an LVM volume? Yes, this option is what was meant. That does seem cleaner; I've just been following the docs and they use regular files. They say I can't just use a raw partition, but maybe kvm-img -f qcow2

Best choice for copy/clone/snapshot

2009-05-12 Thread Ross Boylan
First, I have a feeling this might be a question I could ask on a qemu list. Is there a way for me to tell which questions should go where? Is it OK to ask here? As I install software onto a system I want to preserve its state--just the disk state---at various points so I can go back. What is