[Users] Live snapshots. About how far off is it?

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Karli Sjöberg" <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>
> To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> Cc: "users at oVirt.org" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2012 5:29:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Live snapshots. About how far off is it?

> 4 aug 2012 kl. 19.38 skrev Itamar Heim:

> > On 08/03/2012 02:34 PM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
> 

> > > Hi,
> > 
> 

> > > the subject says it all really. I´ve been setting up oVirt-3.1
> > > and
> > 
> 

> > > absolutely love it, I must say. There´s just that you have to
> > > take
> > > down
> > 
> 

> > > a guest to make snapshots that ticks me off a little. It disrupts
> > 
> 

> > > production. So how far off, 6 months, a year, two years? What
> > > priority
> > 
> 

> > > has it on the roadmap? Any response would appreciated, it makes
> > > it
> > 
> 

> > > easier to plan a migration.
> > 
> 

> > ovirt 3.1 has support for live snapshots.
> 
> > as Jason indicated, the gap is actually in the qemu version in
> > fedora
> > 17.
> 

> Awesome news, thanks! Two follow-up questions about that

> 1) ovirt-engine flashes up a screen saying that it can´t do snapshot
> because the guest is active. If/when qemu gets updated, will the
> engine automatically stop complaining and snapshot live, or will the
> engine require update as well?

> 2) Do you think qemu-1.1 is going to be available for F17, like ever?
> Like through backporting, MFC, whatnot? Hacking/rebuilding rpm´s is
> something only RH employees should be engaged in, purely for
> testing. I have enough troubles getting out of bed as it is, haha:)

qemu-1.1 is available in rawhide/f18 and in the virt-preview repository here 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository


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