Hello,

2015-08-25 22:52 GMT+02:00 Dimitri Maziuk <dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu>:

> > Most, if not all of the visualization hypervisors support virtual machine
> > snapshot. This functionality do not require a special storage with
> > snapshots. I know for sure about VMware and KVM.
>
> AFAIK KVM does "internal" snapshots that live inside the same qcow2
> file, no backup. Storage-level snapshot is a separate file that can be
> backed up. So it's really a question of what do you want it for.
>

KVM can do an external snapshots and I'm developing a KVM plugin which uses
this functionality for backup. The current development stalled because I'm
on vacation right now.

best regards
-- 
Radosław Korzeniewski
rados...@korzeniewski.net
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