Re: [libvirt-users] virsh snapshot-create persistent through destroy(undefine)

Yitao Jiang
2015-01-30T22:01:30Z

Hi,Eric

Thank you very much for the information
On Jan 28, 2015 1:51 AM, "Eric Blake" <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 01/27/2015 03:10 AM, Yitao Jiang wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > If i take a snapshot of a qcow2 image backed domain via virsh
> > snapshot-create domainID and I shutdown the machine (and probably
destroy
> > the domain if virsh list still shows it running), and then undeinfed
the
> > domain  will that snapshot still exist and be active when I define and
> > start the domain back up?
>
> Shutdown/destroy does not lose track of snapshot information.  Undefine
> does; but it only loses track of the metadata; the snapshot data still
> exists, and you could re-create it with virsh snapshot-create --redefine
> after the domain is redefined, if you want to still revert to that state.
>
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> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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