Re: [libvirt-users] Snapshot without volumes temporarily

2013-03-28 Thread Hubert Chiang
Dear Eric, Yes, I have two devices, and I want to take a snapshot with one disk, which the format is qcow2. And I want to skip the other disk during the creation which the format is raw. I will take your suggestions. Thanks for your detailed explanations and advices. I will also try the higher ver

Re: [libvirt-users] Snapshot without volumes temporarily

2013-03-28 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/28/2013 03:46 AM, Hubert Chiang wrote: > Hello, > > I want to do a snapshot which the VM has volumes. > > But I want to skip the volume check when I do the snapshot. (Which means I > want to do a snapshot without detaching the volume) If I understand you, you have a VM with two devices, b

[libvirt-users] Snapshot without volumes temporarily

2013-03-28 Thread Hubert Chiang
Hello, I want to do a snapshot which the VM has volumes. But I want to skip the volume check when I do the snapshot. (Which means I want to do a snapshot without detaching the volume) So I try to write a snapshot XML refer by http://libvirt.org/formatsnapshot.html as following: vda is my VM bas