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> That's odd, because we have supported --live since 1.0.5. Are you sure > you are running the right libvirtd version and not just reporting the > version of your virsh? You are right. I am running an old libvirtd but with a new virsh. It works now! Thank you so much! Xinyang -- Xinyang GE Department of Computer Science & Engineering The Pennsylvania State University

...ll have to do the revert by manual use of qemu-img and editing of a libvirt <domain> XML; more details can be found on this wiki page (still in a bit of disarray, so feel free to edit it for clarity according to what works for you): http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/I_created_an_external_snapshot%2C_but_libvirt_won%27t_let_me_delete_or_revert_to_it -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:23:37 -0700 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote: > On 12/03/2013 12:37 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > > > A pity. Thin provisioning would be (as I see it) the first step to > > whole-VM snapshots as found in systems like VMWare ESX. I'd love to > > be able to pull that off using Linux/QEMU/KVM. Or at least be able > > to snapshot a

Firstly I'd like to learn where a snapshot is stored once it has been made. I understand that the principle is that when changes occur in the VM, the difference is written to the snapshot, thus recording the differences between the date/time of the snapshot and the current value of the VM. Is that a correct assessment of the process? If that is indeed so, can I take regular snapshots and