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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Is this a bug in qemu-img?
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:50:18 +0200
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walt wrote:
> I do a fresh install of Windows vista on qcow2 which works
> perfectly.  Thereafter I use that image as a backing file
> to make all kinds of updates to Vista, and all that works
> perfectly too.
>
> Then I use 'qemu-img commit' to commit all the changes I've
> made to Vista.  The problem is that the updated base image
> doesn't work quite right if I try to run Vista from it --
> there are minor malfunctions which indicate that the commit
> was incomplete or maybe just wrong.

What's your sequence of commands?  Are you using -snapshot?

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