From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Does qemu-img use qemu-system-x86_64? Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:09:50 +0300 Message-ID: <4A5310DE.6060700@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: "Kilb Tobias (Extern)" Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:48410 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756554AbZGGJH0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2009 05:07:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/07/2009 09:51 AM, Kilb Tobias (Extern) wrote: > Good morning list, > > Does anybody know if the command "qemu-img snapshot -c blabla > mymachine.qcow2" starts a virtual machine in the background for doing a > snapshot? > > It does not. > The problem is that I have two versions of qemu on my system. I am using > the 0.10.5 for running virtual machines. When I am doing a snapshot with > CTRL+ALT+2 and then typing "savevm blabla" then everything goes fine". > But when I run the qemu-img command, it does not create the snapshot > (infinite loop). > > Maybe the qemu-img runs an old 0.9.1 version of qemu (corrupted snapshot > code?)? > > Maybe you're using an old qemu-img? If you're using an old image, it's worthwhile to regenerate it using 'qemu-img convert' to clear any hidden corruption. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function