dmc wrote:
> I have a pretty ugly patch against qemu 0.8 which allows the location of
> data used with the -snapshot feature to be somewhere other than
> /var/tmp. I have a use-case where I am creating many gigabytes of
> changes to disk in snapshot mode. When 0.9 came out, I looked, but it
> seemed less than trivial to update my patch, which was a pretty ugly
> hack to begin with.
>
> I don't suppose anybody else thinks this would be a useful feature?
It would certainly be useful, as I found out yesterday :) while testing
installation of a big software package in a Windows virtual machine in
snapshot mode (with 0.9.0) even though the (Linux) host's /tmp had about
1 GB.
I would suggest at least honoring the TMPDIR environment variable (which
is not being taken into account).
Best regards
J Esteves
