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virsh: clarify snapshot --live

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In libvirt, snapshot means disk snapshot.
snapshot --live is more like VM checkpoint.
Make it clear in virsh.pod.

Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
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Chen Hanxiao 2016-08-05 15:23:52 +08:00 committed by Michal Privoznik
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@ -3915,8 +3915,9 @@ this. If this flag is not specified, then some hypervisors may fail
after partially performing the action, and B<dumpxml> must be used to
see whether any partial changes occurred.
If I<--live> is specified, libvirt takes the snapshot while the guest is
running. This increases the size of the memory image of the external
If I<--live> is specified, libvirt takes the snapshot (checkpoint) while
the guest is running. Both disk snapshot and domain memory snapshot are
taken. This increases the size of the memory image of the external
checkpoint. This is currently supported only for external checkpoints.
Existence of snapshot metadata will prevent attempts to B<undefine>