[libvirt] libvirt external disk-only snapshot will pause the VM?

[Eric Blake]

On 08/05/2014 03:54 PM, Yuanzhen Gu wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> If I give command to take external disk-only live snapshot, such as
> # virsh snapshot-create-as vm1 snapshot_vm1 --disk-only
> 
> will the guest OS be paused or suspend while the snapshot being taken?

The guest will temporarily pause, but the time that it remains paused
will be a fraction of a second.  In practice, it is no longer than the
time that the guest is paused when doing live migration.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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