On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Ubuntu Explorer <ubuntuexplo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to implement snapshot saving and loading from command line using > qemu. I am using both the drive and disk options as follows. > <qemu exe> \ > --disk <path to disk file> \ > ...other options \ > -drive file=<path to drive file>, > index=0,media=disk,snapshot=on,if=ide,type=drive,cache=writethrough
Remove snapshot=on. See the documentation about -snapshot versus savevm snapshots: http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-doc.html#vm_005fsnapshots "When using the (unrelated) -snapshot option (Snapshot mode), you can always make VM snapshots, but they are deleted as soon as you exit QEMU." Stefan
