[libvirt-users] snapshot of a raw file - how to revert ?

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 04:37:38PM +0100, Lentes, Bernd wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> again thanks for your quick answer. I had a look on
> https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit
> and i liked it. I'm thinking of upgrading my systems to SLES 12 SP3.
> With that i have qemu 2.9.1 and libvirt 3.3.0, so it should work.

Yep.

> Does this procedure also work with raw files ?

Your *base* image can (IIRC) be raw, but all the overlay files _must_ be
QCOW2.  But again, you can test it in 10 minutes on a VM :-)

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/kashyap