From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37232) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFWRP-00078w-0p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:18:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFWRK-0001XH-Rr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:18:02 -0500 Received: from cc-smtpout3.netcologne.de ([89.1.8.213]:51274) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFWRK-0001WT-IN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:17:58 -0500 Received: from cc-smtpin3.netcologne.de (cc-smtpin3.netcologne.de [89.1.8.203]) by cc-smtpout3.netcologne.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C98C122FA for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:17:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cc-smtpin3.netcologne.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0672011D97 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:17:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from [180.158.48.233] (helo=cc-smtpin3.netcologne.de) by localhost with ESMTP (eXpurgate 4.0.2) (envelope-from ) id 54c579a4-0b71-7f0000012729-7f000001e6de-1 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:17:56 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (unknown [180.158.48.233]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by cc-smtpin3.netcologne.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:17:54 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <54C57997.9010401@netcologne.de> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 07:17:43 +0800 From: vrms@netcologne.de MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <54A5EB53.4010606@netcologne.de> In-Reply-To: <54A5EB53.4010606@netcologne.de> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------050209060604080301020507" Subject: [Qemu-devel] Fwd: Fwd: [Qemu-discuss] wrong command on snapshot wiki List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050209060604080301020507 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am not 100% sure whether this is the right place to raise this issue. Maybe you can forward this to right person | I have the feeling this wikipage >>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/CreateSnapshot is wrong. I think the decription and the posted command for creating snapshots [||qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b centos-cleaninstall.img snapshot.img|] |is actually describing copy-on-write (or overlay) images. And I think this is not the same thing |||As far as I know such a command would creat a copy-on-write image and not a snapshot|. On the german debianforum.de I got another suggestion to vreate snaptshots which I have not tested yet, but sounds more likely to be correct to me qemu-img snapshot -c [snapshot_name] [base_name] | --------------050209060604080301020507 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am not 100% sure whether this is the right place to raise this issue. Maybe you can forward this to right person

I have the feeling this wikipage >>> ht= tp://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/CreateSnapshot=C2=A0 is wrong. I think the decription and the posted command for creating snapshots [qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b centos-cleaninstall.img snapshot.img] is actually describing copy-on-write (or overlay) images. And I think this is not the same thing

As far as I know such a command would creat a copy-on-write image and not a snapshot. On the german debianforum.de I got another suggestion to vreate snaptshots which I have not tested yet, but sounds more likely to be correct to me

=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 qemu-img snapshot -c [snapshot_name] [base_n= ame]



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