On 05/20/11 14:49, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Jes Sorensen <jes.soren...@redhat.com> wrote: >> On 05/20/11 14:19, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >>> I'm interested in what the API for snapshots would look like. >> >> I presume you're talking external snapshots here? The API is really what >> should be defined by libvirt, so you get a unified API that can work >> both on QEMU level snapshots as well as enterprise storage, host file >> system snapshots etc. > > Thanks for the pointers on external snapshots using image files. I'm > really thinking about the libvirt API. > > Basically I'm not sure we'll implement the right things if we don't > think through the API that the user sees first.
Right, I agree. There's a lot of variables there, and they are not necessarily easy to map into a single namespace. I am not sure it should be done either...... Cheers, Jes
