[libvirt-users] Re: Creating a snapshot from a KVM VM fails

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

The 21/08/13, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/20/2013 09:13 AM, Tobias Brunner wrote:

> Internal snapshots require qcow2 (or the less-used qed) file format,
> full stop.  If you want your snapshots to live on RBD storage backend,
> then you either layer the qcow2 file on top of that backend, or you use
> external snapshots.

And another option would be to use LVM on top of RBD.

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Nicolas Sebrecht