[Libvir] Next features and target for development

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Jul 11 09:28:04 UTC 2007


Till Maas wrote:
> On Di Juli 10 2007, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
>> Now is a good time to suggest new potential directions, and I certainly
>> forgot some obvious points, so what did I missed ?
> 
> What I am missing in open source virtualization solutions is the possibility 
> to make snapshots in a tree structure and to freely jump from one state to 
> another. VMWare workstation provides this feature. And in addition it would 
> be nice to clone a virtual machine from a snapshot, i.e. select a snapshot 
> and start a new instance starting from that state.

I'm interested to know how VirtualBox / VMWare deal with disk storage. 
Do they provide their own storage subsystems which support this or do 
they interact with things like LVM?

Rich.

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