From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L4tpw-0006f1-Jo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:04:00 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L4tpv-0006ep-5G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:04:00 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47793 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L4tpu-0006em-Uj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:03:58 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:56674 helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4tpu-0000xQ-Bw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:03:58 -0500 Received: from Relay2.suse.de (relay-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82C80418E4 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:03:55 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <492BC05D.50600@suse.de> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:07:41 +0100 From: Kevin Wolf MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QCOW2 multiple disk (not VM) snapshots References: <492AB73B.8070201@suse.de> <492B129C.7070304@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <492B129C.7070304@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Anthony Liguori schrieb: >> You can try the attached patch to qemu-img. I had it already for list, >> delete and apply (as that's what I've needed so far), and I just added >> create to it to make it complete. However, I didn't test it more than >> making sure that it compiles and a new snapshot is listed afterwards. >> >> If you're interested in having real snapshots with Xen, i.e. basically a >> combination of xm save/restore and qemu-img snapshot, I also have some >> patches to do that. They have quite a few dependencies, though, so they >> are not yet upstream. >> > > Care to resubmit with a proper Signed-off-by line? Seems like a useful > feature. Sure, that's what I wanted to do anyway. I just want to do at least a bit more than only compile testing before. Kevin