Re: [Qemu-devel] New option for snapshot_blkdev to avoid image creation

2011-10-11 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 03.10.2011 18:09, schrieb Federico Simoncelli: In some situations might be useful to let qemu use an image that was prepared for a live snapshot. The advantage is that creating the snapshot file outside of the qemu process we can use the whole range of options provided by the format (eg

Re: [Qemu-devel] New option for snapshot_blkdev to avoid image creation

2011-10-04 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 04:09:01PM +, Federico Simoncelli wrote: In some situations might be useful to let qemu use an image that was prepared for a live snapshot. The advantage is that creating the snapshot file outside of the qemu process we can use the whole range of options provided by

Re: [Qemu-devel] New option for snapshot_blkdev to avoid image creation

2011-10-04 Thread Federico Simoncelli
- Original Message - From: Stefan Hajnoczi stefa...@gmail.com To: Federico Simoncelli fsimo...@redhat.com Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, aba...@redhat.com, dl...@redhat.com Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2011 9:33:48 AM Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] New option for snapshot_blkdev to avoid image

Re: [Qemu-devel] New option for snapshot_blkdev to avoid image creation

2011-10-04 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] New option for snapshot_blkdev to avoid image creation On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 04:09:01PM +, Federico Simoncelli wrote: In some situations might be useful to let qemu use an image that was prepared for a live snapshot. The advantage is that creating

[Qemu-devel] New option for snapshot_blkdev to avoid image creation

2011-10-03 Thread Federico Simoncelli
In some situations might be useful to let qemu use an image that was prepared for a live snapshot. The advantage is that creating the snapshot file outside of the qemu process we can use the whole range of options provided by the format (eg for qcow2: encryption, cluster_size and preallocation).