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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@cs.utexas.edu>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Create the VMDK snapshot from the QEMU monitor.
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 11:24:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45915AE4.8050005@cs.utexas.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64F9B87B6B770947A9F8391472E0321609AB06E3@ehost011-8.exch011.intermedia.net>

Hi Igor,

Out of curiousity, why didn't you use the new snapshot infrastructure 
that Fabrice introduced in CVS?  Shouldn't the CID just map directly to 
a snapshot tag?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

Igor Lvovsky wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>
> This patch completes the previous one and allows the snapshot (VMDK 
> style) creation from the QEMU monitor (Ctrl+Alt+2).
>
>  
>
> To clarify, the previous patch implements the snapshot capabilities 
> according to the "Virtual Disk Format 1.0" document.
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-12/msg00311.html
>
>  
>
> Implemented features:
>
>    1. Create snapshot.
>    2. CID concept to prevent snapshots chain inconsistency.
>    3. Snapshots read/write capabilities.
>
>  
>
> The whole chain (base image and snapshots) created by QEMU can be 
> loaded from the VMware workstation and vice versa.
>
>  
>
> Igor Lvovsky.
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-26 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-26 15:49 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Create the VMDK snapshot from the QEMU monitor Igor Lvovsky
2006-12-26 17:24 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2007-01-09 10:28   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Create the VMDK snapshot from the QEMUmonitor Igor Lvovsky
2007-01-09 16:20     ` Anthony Liguori
2007-01-09 19:40     ` Fabrice Bellard

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