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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:53:56 -0500
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On 06/10/2010 04:43 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>
> Huh, why this? Seems I still haven't understood all of qcow2 then... I
> always thought that there's just a specific offset where VM state
> starts, but no explicit end.
>    

A live snapshot can last for a very long time.  What happens if you need 
to allocate a new block for disk I/O while saving a snapshot?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Kevin
>