[libvirt-users] [help] Does "virsh blockpull" works on live virtual machine

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Wed Aug 6 13:29:03 UTC 2014


On 08/06/2014 06:04 AM, chenyanqiu at keytonecloud.com wrote:
> Hi all,

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> ...Now I want to remove snap1 and snap2, and let current disk using the
base image file as back file directly. Unfortunately, for some reason, I
can not shutdown the vm, and exectue the "virsh blockpull" command. Can
I execute the "virsh blockpull" while the vm is power on, and the
application in the vm is not affected?

Yes, that's the point of the 'virsh blockpull' command - live chain
manipulation with no impact to the running guest.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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