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On Monday, May 05, 2014 08:52:08 AM J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Monday, May 05, 2014 08:10:55 AM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> > Am 04.05.2014 21:22, schrieb J. Roeleveld: |
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> > > On Sunday, May 04, 2014 09:03:08 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> > >> People run KVM-hosts with storage on ZFS ... nice with the |
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> > >> snapshots etc ... |
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> > > Does KVM support running snapshots? Eg. also storing the memory and |
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> > > registers? I have not found any indication that KVM supports that. |
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> > > Without that, KVM is useless to me. |
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> > KVM != ZFS ... you could use ZFS with other hypervisors. |
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> I know, comment was about KVM. ZFS is on my list, but I don't want to use |
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> files for the VMs. |
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> > AFAI understand you can take snapshots using libvirt (which in turn |
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> > controls the underlying qemu-kvm etc). |
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> And I found no evidence on memory taken along with the snapshot. Only disk. |
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> (unfortunately) |
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> I will start a new thread about this with the KVM mailing lists later today. |
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Update: |
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I just found the following page (didn't show up last year using Google): |
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http://redes-privadas-virtuales.blogspot.nl/2011/03/taking-snapshots-on-kvm-with-libvirt.html |
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Memory-snapshot appears possible as well. Time to start testing this. |
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