[libvirt-users] libvirt, snapshots, LVM, and existing VMs

Casey Link unnamedrambler at gmail.com
Thu Feb 3 17:02:03 UTC 2011


> Sorry for the late, qemu driver only supports domain snapshotting
> when the disks' driver type is "qcow2". e.g.
>
> <disk...>
>    ......
>    <driver name="qemu" type="qcow2"/>
>    ......
> </disk>

Ah, thanks. I assume this means I can't snapshot LVM backed domains at
this time? That is, it isn't possible to use qcow2 and lvm at the same
time?

Best,
Casey




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