[Users] How can I create a snapshot for virtual disks only?

[Itamar Heim]

On 06/27/2012 08:57 PM, Shu Ming wrote:
> On 2012-6-27 23:30, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
>> That would make sense only when you are powered off, wouldn't it?
>> Otherwise what's the point of disk snapshot with open transactions,
>> buffers in mem, etc, without saving the state of the VM too?
>
> I understand syncing virtual disk state with the OS cache is a quite
> challenge to a snapshot tool developers. However, it is a handy feature
> for the users just want to back up their data in the disks without
> stopping VM. As other virtualization solution support this feature, we
> should narrow the gap to attract more users to oVirt.
>

actually, live snapshot today is only supported for disks, without the RAM.

>>
>> Thanks,
>> michal
>>
>> On 27 Jun 2012, at 17:26, Shu Ming <shuming at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2012-6-27 23:19, Dafna Ron wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> no. the snapshot is for the entire vm and it's disks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 06/27/2012 05:31 PM, Shu Ming wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am testing oVirt engine 3.1 beta release 06-07. I tried
>>>>> "snapshots-->create" button for a VM and it looked like that the
>>>>> snapshot to be created was for both the running state of the system
>>>>> and the virtual disks. I am wondering if there is any way to create
>>>>> the snapshot only for the virtual disks of the VM in engine?
>>>>>
>>> Do we have future plan to make snapshot for it's disks?
>>>
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>>> Shu Ming <shuming at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> IBM China Systems and Technology Laboratory
>>>
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