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

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(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; 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? >>> >>> -- >>> Shu Ming <shuming(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; >>> IBM China Systems and Technology Laboratory >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> Users(a)ovirt.org >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >