[libvirt] Ephemeral VM operation

Dave Allan dallan at redhat.com
Thu Oct 7 22:49:05 UTC 2010


A number of hypervisors have a mode in which changes made to storage
are not persisted across a reboot of the VM.  qemu uses the -snapshot
flag; VMware refers to this functionality as non-persistent disk[1].  Is
this functionality something that is interesting to libvirt?

Dave

[1]
http://www.virtuesofvirtualization.com/2006/10/magic-of-nonpersistent-drives-in-vmware.html




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