On Tue, 08/29 18:32, Vincenzo Romano wrote: > I'd like to move away from "another virtualization solution" to QEmu. > I've more or less all the needed bits in my hands in order to define, > run and manage QEmu VMs. > What I am missing is the knowledge of how to backup a live VM. > Of course, if I shutdown the VM, I can simply copy its files and the > startup script on another QEmu host. > But my main objective is to do the backup while the VM is running. > I think I could use the snapshot feature, but have no idea on how to proceed. > Any hint?
In short, just do what libvirt would do: use QMP and send 'drive-backup' command. This is a very good howto: https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/docs/interop/live-block-operations.rst Fam
