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2015 May 30
2
snapshots and vmdk
Does libvirt support snapshotting when the virtual disk comes from a vmdk file?
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Snapshots#Desired_functionality seems to say no, since it says "'virsh snapshot', which requires all disk images to be qcow2".
OTOH, man virsh, http://libvirt.org/formatsnapshot.html, and http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsDisks seem to indicate more flexibility, though I see nothing about vmdk.
If t...
2015 Jun 01
0
Re: snapshots and vmdk
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 02:35:51AM +0000, Boylan, Ross wrote:
> Does libvirt support snapshotting when the virtual disk comes from a
> vmdk file?
>From my quick test (refer below), seems like you can at-least use VMDK
as a backing file.
> http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Snapshots#Desired_functionality seems to
> say no, since it says "'virsh snapshot', which requires all disk
> images to be qcow2".
>
> OTOH, man virsh, http://libvirt.org/formatsnapshot.html, and
> http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsDisks seem to indicate
> more flexibility, though I...