[Users] oVirt support for backup/restore

[Itamar Heim]

On 04/19/2013 11:46 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>
>>
>> qemu-guest-agent isn't ovirt/rhev-guest-agent.
>> now that qemu started their own guest agent, ovirt/rhev-guest-agent isn't
>> used for things covered by the qemu-guest-agent.
>
> Ah, ok.
> SO after reading
> http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Qemu_guest_agent
> some questions
>
> can we use ootb qemu-guest-agent with ovirt 3.2.1 if we have for
> example a CentOS 6 guest (with qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.355)?
> Does oVirt create a virtio-serial port to communicate with libvit and
> does it use libvirt with any options to quiesce  fs on guest?

iirc, it should work - testing/feedback would be welcome.

>
> Can one use as an alternative the command fsfreeze in CentOS 6.4 guest
> (even if in tech preview) as in :
> https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Technical_Notes/storage.html
>

what i remember is that it supposed to be pluggable/configurable for you 
to run the relevant commands you want.
ayal may remember better