[libvirt-users] Backup a VM (using live external snapshot and blockcommit)

[Jérôme]

Le Fri, 11 Sep 2015 10:45:34 -0600,
Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> a écrit :

> But if the guest is
> malicious, it can pretend to be a guest agent, but intentionally
> refuse to reply to the --quiesce request, and leave libvirt hung
> waiting for a reply.  So it boils down to whether you trust your
> guests to be reasonable with their guest agent connection (fine if it
> is your own guests, not so much if you are hosting a cloud for other
> people's guests).

Of course. I didn't think of this use case.
 
> >     virsh snapshot-delete vm1 --metadata --current 
> 
> Yep, sounds like a bug in the wiki, so I fixed it.

I thought so but didn't dare to be too affirmative about it.

Glad it is fixed. Hopefully, it will save someone some time and
trouble. Let this be my micro-contribution...

Thanks again.

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Jérôme