[libvirt-users] Questions and a blockpull issue

Abbas akhan at phi9.com
Tue Oct 23 05:55:33 UTC 2012


On 10/23/2012 12:51 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> For snapshots, that all depends on what you want to do with the snapshot
>> - if you want to ever revert to the snapshot (and boot from that state),
>> then quiescing makes sense; but if snapshots is only an intermediate
>> step as part of a larger sequence of operations and you will then remove
>> the intermediate files via blockpull and/or blockcommit, then quiescing
>> is not necessary.
>
Oh and one last question. Since qemu-ga does not support quiescing 
Windows domains, what do you suggest in that case. I know this is not a 
libvirt specific question but I shall appreciate any ideas.

/Abbas




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