[sheepdog-users] Start a guest from a snapshot

[Liu Yuan]

On 03/21/2013 10:49 PM, MORITA Kazutaka wrote:
> If we start from a snapshot, a new writable vdi will be created as its
> child.  The previous writable vdi will be kept as a snapshot because
> we allows only one writable vdi for each vdi name.  If you want to
> keep two writable vdi, you have to create a different vdi name (I
> think this restriction is same as VMware or VirtualBox).
> 

Ah, I see. So starting a VM on a snapshot means that we actually run on
the newly created child, which idx = 0?

>> > better seen as a clone. Kazutaka, is this intentional? How about marking
>> > this VDI as clone?
> IIUC, we mark a vdi as clone only when it is cloned from the other vdi
> name.  However, to be honest, I don't understand the intention of 'c'
> mark in the vdi list.  It's you who merge the patch to introduce the
> mark, so if you think we should mark the vdi as clone, I'm not against
> it.

'Clone' means a writable VDI which is based(sharing data) on a read-only
snapshot. I thought starting a VM on a snapshot will create another
writable VDI with the same name. So this is not the case, we shouldn't
mark it as clone.

Thanks,
Yuan