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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? --- Thanks, Yitao(依涛 姜) jiangyt.github.io

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 virs...