From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57417 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PTGhM-0005lg-G9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:29:19 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PTGhF-0001hl-57 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:28:50 -0500 Received: from mail-wy0-f173.google.com ([74.125.82.173]:45099) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PTGhE-0001hX-TW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:28:49 -0500 Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so2905451wyg.4 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:28:48 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:28:17 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] -snapshot From: Stefan Hajnoczi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Amador Pahim Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Amador Pahim wrote: > Is a bad idea if I run multiples "qemu" vms pointing to the same disk > img using "-snapshot" parameter? What kind of problem may I have? It should work fine. -snapshot means that QEMU creates a temporary qcow2 file backed by the disk image you've given it. No changes will be made to your disk image - it is read-only. Stefan