[sheepdog-users] Start a guest from a snapshot

[Liu Yuan]

On 03/21/2013 05:54 PM, Valerio Pachera wrote:
> 2013/3/21 Liu Yuan <namei.unix at gmail.com>:
>> QEMU client will actually clone the specified snapshot and start the
>> clone which copy-on-write the specified snapshot.
> 
> That means the vdi with id =  0 will never be affected by changes on
> the snapshot.
> Is that right?
> 

Yes. id = 0 means it is not the snapshot and isn't affected.

Well, from the 'collie vdi list', it seems that the internally created
VDI is also snapshot. It looks weird to me, because this new VDI is
writeable(I am not sure of it, but I can do 'dd' inside). So it is
better seen as a clone. Kazutaka, is this intentional? How about marking
this VDI as clone?

Thanks,
Yuan