[sheepdog-users] does sheepdog support live snapshot?

Liu Yuan namei.unix at gmail.com
Fri Dec 27 08:53:19 CET 2013


On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:09:07PM +0800, redtone wrote:
> Does sheepdog can support create VM's disk snapshot when the VM is running?

Yes and you need latest QEMU such as v1.7

Do a live snapshot which stores disk + memory state:
 $ qemu monitor > savevm

Do a live disk-only snapshot:
 $ qemu-img snapshot -c tag sheepdog:your_image
 or 
 $ dog vdi snapshot -s tag your_image

Thanks
Yuan



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