[libvirt] libvirt internal snapshots incremental or not.

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Mon Oct 13 14:19:50 UTC 2014


On 10/13/2014 12:39 PM, Sijo Jose wrote:
> Hi,
> Is libvirt internal snapshots are incremental or not..?
> Consider the example,
> There are 3 snapshots, created respectively snp1 first, 
> after some changes snp2, again after some changes snp3.
> 
> Question,
> 1.Is there any dependency that is ...snp2 depended upon snp1 and snp3 depended
> upon snp2 OR snp1 OR both
> 
> 2.So if I remove snp2, does it makes snp3 invalid, OR can I use snp3 further.
> 

Internal snapshots are independent, you can delete or alter any snapshot and
it doesn't impact the state of the other snapshots.

- Cole




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