Re: [Qemu-devel] RFCv2: virDomainSnapshotCreateXML enhancements

2011-08-23 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 08/23/2011 03:52 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Eric Blake  wrote: >>> >>> disk snapshot: the state of a virtual disk used at a given time; once a >>> snapshot exists, then it is possible to track a delta o

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFCv2: virDomainSnapshotCreateXML enhancements

2011-08-11 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/11/2011 08:11 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: I agree with you. It feels a bit backwards for snapshots, but it's really the only reasonable thing to do if you're using external snapshots. That you can't rename block devices is actually a very point point, too. There's one more point to consider: If

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFCv2: virDomainSnapshotCreateXML enhancements

2011-08-11 Thread Kevin Wolf
[ CCed qemu-devel, just in case someone's interested ] Am 11.08.2011 15:23, schrieb Eric Blake: >> [ Okay, some of it is handled later in this document, but I think it's >> still useful to leave this summary in my mail. External VM state is >> something that you don't seem to have covered yet - ca