On 11/05/2014 10:13 PM, Andrija Panic wrote: > Wido, would it be possible that the memory is really stored as you > suggested in a separate disk file, on the same primary storage as where the > ROOTdisk exists.
Maybe, probably a possibility. I haven't looked into it that deeply. > How did you implement this with Xen (I'm not familiar with it at all.) ? > I did not implement it on Xen, so I don't know. Wido > On 5 November 2014 22:01, Wido den Hollander <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On 11/05/2014 07:37 PM, Logan Barfield wrote: >>> This is a feature we would like to see as well. >>> >>> Does KVM have native support for VM/Memory snapshotting? If so what are >>> the barriers to getting this implemented? >>> >> >> KVM has the support, but there is a problem with the storage. >> >> Snapshotting a disk is simple, that's supported by QCOW2, LVM, RBD, etc. >> >> But when you want to snapshot a VirtualMachine you have to store the >> memory contents somewhere. >> >> That is something that hasn't been worked out. Do you create a >> additional 'disk' for storing the memory contents? >> >> That's the barriers I currently know for implementing it. >> >> Wido >> >>> >>> Thank You, >>> >>> Logan Barfield >>> Tranquil Hosting >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Andrija Panic <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Anybody ? >>>> >>>> On 3 November 2014 15:23, Andrija Panic <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi guys, >>>>> >>>>> do we have any plans in some near future to imlement full VM KVM >>>>> snapshots. So not single volume snaphost, but a reall VM snapshots. It >> is >>>>> already there for Xen/VMware, but not KVM. >>>>> >>>>> Any thoughts, ETA, or difficulties to implement this ? >>>>> Any feedback greatly appriciated... >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Andrija Panić >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> Andrija Panić >>>> -------------------------------------- >>>> http://admintweets.com >>>> -------------------------------------- >>>> >>> >> > > >
