[hxiang@T420 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.1 (Santiago)
[hxiang@T420 ~]$ cat /etc/openclient-release 
Open Client RHEL 64 3.10 (Gold Master)
[hxiang@T420 ~]$ libvirtd --version
libvirtd (libvirt) 0.8.7
[hxiang@T420 ~]$ virsh -V
Virsh command line tool of libvirt 0.8.7
See web site at http://libvirt.org/

Compiled with support for:
 Hypervisors: QEmu/KVM LXC ESX Test
 Networking: Remote Daemon Network Bridging Netcf Nwfilter VirtualPort
 Storage: Dir Disk Filesystem SCSI Multipath iSCSI LVM
 Miscellaneous: SELinux Secrets Debug DTrace Readline
[hxiang@T420 ~]$ ls -l /etc/precious.*
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2 Oct 12 11:38 /etc/precious.1
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2 Oct 12 11:38 /etc/precious.2
[hxiang@T420 ~]$ virsh -c qemu+unix:///system?socket=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.

Type:  'help' for help with commands
       'quit' to quit

virsh # start fc15
Domain fc15 started

virsh # dump fc15 /etc/precious.1
Domain fc15 dumped to /etc/precious.1

virsh # save fc15 /etc/precious.2
Domain fc15 saved to /etc/precious.2

virsh # 
[hxiang@T420 ~]$ ls -l /etc/precious.*
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 253777159 Oct 12 11:42 /etc/precious.1
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 257745683 Oct 12 11:42 /etc/precious.2
[hxiang@T420 ~]$