From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Zhang Haoyu <zhanghy@sangfor.com.cn>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to clone a running vm?
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:13:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54B3903D.30806@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201501121615383625062@sangfor.com.cn>
On 12/01/2015 09:15, Zhang Haoyu wrote:
> > I want to clone a running vm without shutoff,
> > can below method work?
> > 1) create a snapshot for the vm
> > 2) create a new qcow2 image from the snapshot, but how?
> > 3) use the new qcow2 image as backing image to clone vms
>
> Can drive_mirror clone a running vm without guest service disruption?
Yes.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-12 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-12 7:49 [Qemu-devel] How to clone a running vm? Zhang Haoyu
2015-01-12 8:15 ` Zhang Haoyu
2015-01-12 9:13 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-01-12 15:17 ` Eric Blake
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