[libvirt-users] Rollback to running VM

[Doug Hughes]

I would estimate you are bounded by memory bandwidth (GB/sec - so not
much, but proportional to memory size) and disk bandwidth. So, using SSD
will help for certain vs spinning. I'm not sure about the catch-22
implicit with using a ramdisk, but since the ramdisk should be
previsioned from the host to the guest, it seems like it should work.

There may be other bottlenecks in drivers, etc. Not in my knowledge domain.


On 9/19/2017 12:53 PM, Jackson, Gary L. wrote:
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> Thanks! The vanilla snapshot-create-as and revert commands work just
> exactly the way I’d want them to. I’d gotten a bit confused by the
> documentation and went down a rabbit hole with external snapshots.
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> Is there any way to make the snapshot and restore faster, like maybe
> by a decimal order of magnitude? For example, will PXE booting the VM
> and running it entirely off of a RAM disk and also using a RAM disk
> for the backing store help?
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> Gary Jackson
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> *From: *Doug Hughes <doug.hughes at keystonenap.com>
> *Date: *Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 11:25 AM
> *To: *"Jackson, Gary L." <Gary.Jackson at jhuapl.edu>,
> "libvirt-users at redhat.com" <libvirt-users at redhat.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [libvirt-users] Rollback to running VM
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> According to this page: https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Snapshots
> <https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Snapshots>
> It saves complete memory state, or crash-consistent disk state, but
> not both.
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> You probably want to test it thoroughly and see how it does.  I only
> use the disk-consistent snapshots.
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> On 9/19/2017 11:17 AM, Jackson, Gary L. wrote:
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>     Will snapshot-revert restore the processor and memory state of the VM as it was at the time of the snapshot?
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> Doug Hughes
> Keystone NAP
> Fairless Hills, PA
> 1.844.KEYBLOCK (539.2562)
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