[libvirt] Ability to add arbitrary data to snapshots

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 03:17:43PM +0300, Alexander Burluka wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Currently our Virtuozzo company is working on some kind of management tool
> for libvirt. We encountered some problems with snapshots while development.
> So I would like to ask community a few questions:
> 1) Would you mind if I extend current libvirt snapshot with ability to add
> arbitrary data (blob or some config files)?
> 2) Would this feature be useful for your users?
> 
> I see it as something like:
> virsh snapshot-create VM1 --blob /path/to/some-file
> virsh snapshot-revert  VM1 <number>
> and /path/to/some-file appeared again.

You don't really explain what you would want libvirt to do with this
data ?

Regards,
Daniel
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