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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Issue with snapshot outside qcow2 disk - qemu 0.14.0
From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
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To: SAURAV LAHIRI <saurav_lahiri@yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:06 PM, SAURAV LAHIRI <saurav_lahiri@yahoo.com> wro=
te:
> Following steps were executed to copy a snapshot outside the original qco=
w2 but looks like there is an issue.
>
> 1. VM(vm1) brought up with a qcow2 image(/home/user1/lucid-vm2). This is =
a lucid 10.04 VM.
>
> 2. Next snapshot created for the qcow2
> =A0=A0 #qemu-img snapshot -c snap1 /home/user1/lucid-vm2

It is not safe to run qemu-img while the VM is using the image file.

Stefan