[libvirt] libvirt qcow2 internal snapshot without vm state

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Tue Dec 15 07:21:44 UTC 2015


On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 01:09:46 +0300, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> Hi! I'm try to grep sources, but can't understand, how libvirt create
> internal snapshot in the same qcow2 file without memory state?
> As i understand libvirt via qmp/hmp runs savevm command via qemu. But
> i don't understand how libvirt skips memory state in this case?

You could possibly do that with 'blockdev-snapshot-internal-sync', but
libvirt doesn't support that yet. Internal snapshots are always with
memory state if the VM is online at the time the snapshot is taken.

Peter
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