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...get the snapshot location from its XML description and then: > > > > qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O qcow2 base_image.qcow2 snapshot.qcow2 > > This makes a copy of the whole disk image. It's also not a consistent > (point in time) copy. Oh I see that you're copying the _snapshot_ that you created with libvirt; it's not a whole disk copy. There's still not any point in doing this, and what I said below stands. > > At that point I mount it through libguestfs and inspect its content. > > As long as you use the 'readonly=1' flag (which is really *...

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:43:30PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: [. . .] > > This makes a copy of the whole disk image. It's also not a consistent > > (point in time) copy. > > Oh I see that you're copying the _snapshot_ that you created with > libvirt; it's not a whole disk copy. There's still not any point in > doing this, and what I said below stands. > > > > At that point I mount it through libguestfs and inspect its content. > > > > As long as you use the 'readonly=...

Greetings, I have the following typical scenario: given one or more qcow2 base images I clone them with COW and start the VMs. At a certain point I'd like to inspect them in order to see their evolution compared to the known base images. To do so I was thinking about taking a disk snapshot of each VM and inspect its content through libguestfs (using it's Python bindings). Obviously I

...Chamarthy wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:43:30PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > [. . .] > > > > This makes a copy of the whole disk image. It's also not a consistent > > > (point in time) copy. > > > > Oh I see that you're copying the _snapshot_ that you created with > > libvirt; it's not a whole disk copy. There's still not any point in > > doing this, and what I said below stands. > > > > > > At that point I mount it through libguestfs and inspect its content. > > > > > > As long...

...ts XML description and then: > > > > > > qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O qcow2 base_image.qcow2 snapshot.qcow2 > > > > This makes a copy of the whole disk image. It's also not a consistent > > (point in time) copy. > > Oh I see that you're copying the _snapshot_ that you created with > libvirt; it's not a whole disk copy. There's still not any point in > doing this, and what I said below stands. > > > > At that point I mount it through libguestfs and inspect its content. > > > > As long as you use the 'readonly=1&...