[ovirt-users] VMs Pause During Live Snapshot Creation

Nir Soffer nsoffer at redhat.com
Wed Mar 2 22:27:11 UTC 2016


On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Duckworth, Douglas C <duckd at tulane.edu>
wrote:

> It is my understanding that VMs must pause during Live Snapshot creation
> when "Save Memory" option is selected.
>
> If you're only seeking to mitigate against issues that might arise after
> doing package updates then what's the advantage of going with that route?
>

Do you mean not using VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_LIVE?

Francesco, do you know why we are not using this flag?

Down the road does anyone know if it will be possible for oVirt and
> eventually RHEV to gather snapshots without Pausing VMs?  Does Docker
> make this a feature we likely won't see developed?
>

I guess we should test this flag. Do you have any issues with the current
code
pausing vms when saving memory?

Nir
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