Re: [libvirt-users] snapshot of a raw file - how to revert ?

2018-02-15 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 11:41:37AM +0100, Lentes, Bernd wrote: [...] > Hi, > > i found that: > https://dustymabe.com/2015/01/11/qemu-img-backing-files-a-poor-mans-snapshotrollback/ > > I tried it and it seemed to work, although my root fs was checked > after the commit, anything else seemed to

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshot of a raw file - how to revert ?

2018-02-15 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 01:38:34PM +0100, Lentes, Bernd wrote: > Hi, [...] > I have several guests running with raw files, which is sufficent for > me. Now i'd like to snapshot one guest because i make heavy > configuration changes on it. From what i read in the net is that > libvirt supports s

[libvirt-users] Reverting to external snapshots [Was: Re: Ask question]

2018-02-15 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
[Adjusted the subject] On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 10:33:05PM +0800, 李杰 wrote: > Dear > > > Recently,I am interested in libvirt,but I found the > libvirt does't support revert and delete the external > snapshot which the raw disk based guest.My libvirt and >

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshot of a raw file - how to revert ?

2018-02-15 Thread Lentes, Bernd
- On Feb 13, 2018, at 1:38 PM, Bernd Lentes bernd.len...@helmholtz-muenchen.de wrote: > Hi, > > i have the following system: > > pc59093:~ # cat /etc/os-release > NAME="SLES" > VERSION="11.4" > VERSION_ID="11.4" > PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4" > ID="sles" > ANSI_COLOR=