similar to: Cloning of Running Domain

Hello Thanks heaps for your suggestions. responses inline. On 10 Apr 2014, at 10:34 pm, Eric Blake <eblake@rehost1hat.com> wrote: > > [ … ] > [Can you convince your mailer to wrap long lines? It makes it easier > for other readers] I’ll try and keep the lines short. I don’t see any obvious setting to change the wrap. >> >> Using RHEL 6.4 and libvirt version

Hi all, I guess my question is stupid and has been asked a thousand times but i was wondering if it's possible to do the following things: - Cloning of a running virtual machine (hot copy) - Migrate a physical server to a virtual one. I googled a bit and am not able to find the answers. Thanks. Regards, Sam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Morning, I have a KVM guest running Win 2012 with MS SQL 2012. In order to provide a quick method of restoring the service should the live server die, we've decided to clone it to a preserved state. Ideally, this clone should also be kept up to date and cloning should be done on a regular basis. Is there any reason not to do unattended cloning? As in, when I leave on a Friday afternoon,

Hi (Eric?), A couple of questions while using the 'virsh blockpull' Summary: 1] Created snapshots this way: base<-snap1<-snap2<-snap3 (online, external snapshot --disk-only) 2] I did a 'virsh blockpull' from snap2 into snap3 3] Next, did another 'virsh blockpull' from snap1 into snap3 - Here, 'qemu-img info /path/to/snap3' shows its backing file

Hi Libvirt, Does libvirt-python currently support the creation of external snapshots? I ran domain.snapshotCreateXML(xml) where xml is <domainsnapshot> <name>snap1</name> <description>Snapshot of OS install and updates</description> <disks> <disk name='vda'> <source

Hi all, I have a kvm virtual machine running (qemu version 2.0), and I had took several external snapshots of the disk( using "virsh snapshot-create-as"). Now, the existed disk files relationship look like: base <- snap1 <-snap2 <- current using disk file. Now I want to remove snap1 and snap2, and let current disk using the base image file as back file directly. Unfortunately,

Hello If I'm not terribly mistaken, looks like libvirt 1.2.1 does not provide ability of merging only a subset of the entire chain of backing files. So, if I have a chain like this: root <- a <-b <- c <- d <- active ... and I'd like to obtain a chain like this: root <- c <- d <- active ... looks like it's not supported,

All, I have a service that takes new live KVM snapshots Si regularly, keeps a fixed number N (Si ,..,Si-N+1), and therefore needs to delete Si-N in this cycle. Until libvirt includes support for this capability that is said to be available in qemu, what is a safe workflow to delete old live KVM snapshots w/o losing data. Do I need to pause/shut down the VM? The development environment is

Hi Kashyap, Thanks for your answer! Unfortunately my use case requires cloning the exact memory state, so I won't be able to use virt-sysprep. But the snapshot command looks like something I could use. Could you suggest how to proceed and create/start a new vm from that snapshot? Thanks, Michael On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com> wrote: > On

Greetings, I am developing a platform for test and debug use. The typical scenario I want to realize is the following: I run a .qcow2 image via QEMU-KVM, the running OS is not relevant. I want to take several snapshots of both Disk and RAM status; same file, separate files doesn't matter. I just need a way to have consistent information about them (better with XML description) and the data

Hey When I want to take a snapshot for a Domain by using virDomainSnapshotCreateXML. The Error as below happen: libvir: QEMU error : Requested operation is not valid: Disk '/var/lib/libvirt/images/fedora-qcow.qcow2' does not support snapshotting The snapshot Configuration is : <domainsnapshot> <description>Snapshot of OS install and updates</description>

Hello, I am working on my PhD thesis and it would be really helpfull if someone could advise me, whether can Virsh create snapshots of VMs using copy-on-write. Thanks for reply. Juraj

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

Hello, I recently compiled libvirt 1.0.1 and qemu 1.3.0 on Ubuntu 12.04. I have performed live snapshots on VMs using "virsh snapshot-create-as" and then later re-merge the images together using "virsh blockpull". I am wondering how I can do a couple of other operations on the images while the VM is running. For example, VM1 is running from the snap3 image, with the following

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote: > On 08/06/2014 10:06 AM, Yuanzhen Gu wrote: > > yes, I got your point, thanks very much Eric. > > not entirely, because you still top-posted. > > got it entirely this time, not top-posted. > > > > If I want to take a distributed snapshot, which need pause all the VMs > and >

I have used virsh snapshot-create-as <VM name> <snapshot name> "<snapshot description>" --diskspec "vda,snapshot=external,file=/path/to/external-snapshot" --disk-only --atomic to create an external snapshot of a running VM. I followed it with virsh blockpull <VM name> --path /path/to/external-snapshot and monitored it until done.

On 04/10/2014 04:38 PM, rolf wrote: >> [Can you convince your mailer to wrap long lines? It makes it easier >> for other readers] > > I’ll try and keep the lines short. I don’t see any obvious setting to change the wrap. Thanks for being accommodating; this was indeed easier to read (alas, many web mailers these days lack settings for automatic wrap, so I end up whacking the

Hello, When I snapshot a vm( hvm centos ) the first time, it succeed. There is a snapshot file on disk and the vm is running. But when I do it the second time, it fail for timeout. what''s wrong with it? This error happened when I used xen-4.0.1-rc5 and kernel-2.6.31.13. Today I update to xen-4.0.1 and kernel-2.6.32.25, it is with the same wrong. Error message:

Hello, When I snapshot a vm( hvm centos ) the first time, it succeed. There is a snapshot file on disk and the vm is running. But when I do it the second time, it fail for timeout. what''s wrong with it? This error happened when I used xen-4.0.1-rc5 and kernel-2.6.31.13. Today I update to xen-4.0.1 and kernel-2.6.32.25, it is with the same wrong. Error message:

Hello ### http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-July/msg00782.htm "it almost sounds like you want the convenience of a system checkpoint (the ability to revert to a guest with its RAM state unchanged, which is much faster than booting from just disk state)." ### I am trying to figure out if it is possible to take a snapshot or "system checkpoint" for a VM running