On 01/08/07, dmc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? Or at > least > someone who can rattle off the top of their heads the sorts of things I should > keep in mind while trying to put it together myself? > > A further extension, which I would like, but is also more complex to add, > would > be the ability to specify -snapshot, _per device_.
I also thought that would be useful earlier but now qcow2 overlays provide much better flexibility and don't litter the commandline syntax. I think the currently available choice between -snapshot (for the simplest possible use case) and qcow2 overlays (for anything more complex) is a perfect balance for usability and there's no need to add more switches. Regards, Andrzej (away until mid-September(?))
