On 05/19/2015 03:29 PM, Mathew Moon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry about top-posting, didn't know it was a nuisance. As for
It's okay - we were all new once.
> developing,
> I wish I could but I have never spent any time coding in c, c++, etc. I
> am a systems guy, not a developer, so I only wor
Hi,
Sorry about top-posting, didn't know it was a nuisance. As for
developing,
I wish I could but I have never spent any time coding in c, c++, etc. I
am a systems guy, not a developer, so I only work with scripting languages.
I would love to have the tech chops to contribute though. If I
On 05/19/2015 02:41 PM, Mathew Moon wrote:
> Hi Eric,
[please don't top-post on technical lists]
>
> Thanks for the info. I see the value in this, but it isn't quite what I was
> looking for. Basically what I want to do is to switch between snapshots
> quickly. For instance, I am currently worki
On 05/19/2015 03:06 PM, Mathew Moon wrote:
> It seems that my version of libvirt does not support the flags that yours
> does either. I have the latest version from the Ubuntu repos and am running
> 14.04. What version are you running and do you know if these features
> depend on libvirt, or qemu-i
It seems that my version of libvirt does not support the flags that yours
does either. I have the latest version from the Ubuntu repos and am running
14.04. What version are you running and do you know if these features
depend on libvirt, or qemu-img to be upgraded?
===
Hi Eric,
Thanks for the info. I see the value in this, but it isn't quite what I was
looking for. Basically what I want to do is to switch between snapshots
quickly. For instance, I am currently working on designing a HA SQL
implementation with failover. So right now I have 5 VM's running postgres
On 05/19/2015 12:52 PM, Mathew Moon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to "pivot" to a new image without doing blockcopy or
> blockpull?
No. Qemu does not support arbitrary reopening of a backing chain yet
(even with the 'change-backing-file' QMP command, that is just rewriting
contents of the qcow2
Hi,
Is it possible to "pivot" to a new image without doing blockcopy or
blockpull? I know how to use snapshots and blockpull to create a new image
and pivot to using it live, but what I would like to do is to have a VM
switch from using imageA.qcow2 to image2.qcow2 while running. I don't see
why t
