[Fedora-xen] Slightly off-topic question about Xen+LVM

[Aaron Metzger]

Sam Folk-Williams wrote:
>
> 
>> Alternatively, is there any other reliable way to make a 
>> self-consistent copy of a running Xen virtual machine image for the 
>> case where the Xen virtual machine is held in a regular file system 
>> file?  Is LVM my only option?
> 
> For a single file you can just copy the file... with, say, cp or dd.
> 

Thanks for the reply, but I thought that this is not a valid thing to do 
for a RUNNING guest.  I think that the file will be changing too rapidly 
(guest machine swap etc) to get a self-consistent copy using just "cp" 
or "dd".  Right?


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Aaron M.