[libvirt] Ability to add arbitrary data to snapshots

[Alexander Burluka]

Just save this data near main snapshot data (e.g. in 
/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/snapshot/<domain-name>/<snapshot-hash>)
and restore it on previous or specified path.

On 01/25/2016 11:46 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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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Regards,
Alexander Burluka