[sheepdog] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] sheepdog: support online snapshot from qemu-img

[Liu Yuan]

On 04/25/2013 09:44 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Is that even safe?  We specifically recommend that users NOT use
> qemu-img on any image that is in-use by a qemu process, and instead only
> use qemu monitor commands; since qemu-img may see inconsistent state,
> and worse, any writes that qemu-img do may cause qemu to see
> inconsistent state and cause corruption to the running guest.

Then why not disable ( qemu-im snapshoting live VM) this behavior
completely?

Thanks,
Yuan