mirror of
https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt.git
synced 2025-02-23 11:52:20 +00:00
9b5a514b31
This patch adds support for external disk snapshots of inactive domains. The snapshot is created by calling using qemu-img by calling: qemu-img create -f format_of_snapshot -o backing_file=/path/to/src,backing_fmt=format_of_backing_image /path/to/snapshot in case the backing image format is known or probing is allowed and otherwise: qemu-img create -f format_of_snapshot -o backing_file=/path/to/src /path/to/snapshot on each of the disks selected for snapshotting. This patch also modifies the snapshot preparing function to support creating external snapshots and to sanitize arguments. For now the user isn't able to mix external and internal snapshots but this restriction might be lifted in the future.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>