Re: [Qemu-devel] RFE- snapshot data storage location configurable

[J M Cerqueira Esteves <jmce@artenumerica.com>]

dmc wrote:
> I have a pretty ugly patch against qemu 0.8 which allows the location of
> data used with the -snapshot feature to be somewhere other than
> /var/tmp.  I have a use-case where I am creating many gigabytes of
> changes to disk in snapshot mode.  When 0.9 came out, I looked, but it
> seemed less than trivial to update my patch, which was a pretty ugly
> hack to begin with.
> 
> I don't suppose anybody else thinks this would be a useful feature? 

It would certainly be useful, as I found out yesterday :) while testing
installation of a big software package in a Windows virtual machine in
snapshot mode (with 0.9.0) even though the (Linux) host's /tmp had about
1 GB.

I would suggest at least honoring the TMPDIR environment variable (which
is not being taken into account).


Best regards
                           J Esteves