[libvirt-users] VM with transient disk

[Till Mossakowski]

Hi Osier,

are there other hypervisors supporting it?

And what about qemu's option "snapshot=on" ?

Best, Till

Am 31.10.2011 04:28, schrieb Osier Yang:
> On 10/31/2011 03:18 AM, Till Mossakowski wrote:
>> I want to use transient disks with libvirt.
>> According to [1], the transient disk feature has been supported since
>> 0.9.5.
>> Hence, I have installed libvirt 0.9.6 for Ubuntu Lucid from [2] and
>> used the following disk configuration:
>>
>> <disk type='file' device='disk'>
>> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
>> <source file='/home/till/test.img'/>
>> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
>> <transient/>
>> </disk>
>>
>> However, I get:
>> unsupported configuration: transient disks not supported yet
>
> That's because libvirt supported it yet, but qemu still haven't
> complete the support. Not sure if the newest upstream
> qemu already supported it though.
>
> Osier