[et-mgmt-tools] replacing a file under kvm

[David Lutterkort]

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 12:46 -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> I know you should not do this, but I am just curious. Assume I have a 
> virtual machine running (git appliance) and I rebuild the image, thus 
> replacing on the file system the backing for the machine I see in 
> virt-manager. If I destroy the machine via virt-manager has it attempted 
> to write bits to the underliing file?

If it's backed by a file, normal Unix fs semantics make sure that
nothing evil happens: even though you deleted the file in the
filesystem, it won't really go away until after it is not being used
anymore, i.e. until after the VM shuts down.

David