Re: [libvirt-users] snapshots and vmdk

2015-06-01 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 11:24:49AM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 02:35:51AM +, Boylan, Ross wrote: > > Does libvirt support snapshotting when the virtual disk comes from a > > vmdk file? Also, Stefan Hajnoczi from the QEMU project, points out: QEMU's implementa

Re: [libvirt-users] snapshots and vmdk

2015-06-01 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 02:35:51AM +, Boylan, Ross wrote: > Does libvirt support snapshotting when the virtual disk comes from a > vmdk file? >From my quick test (refer below), seems like you can at-least use VMDK as a backing file. > http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Snapshots#Desired_functionali

[libvirt-users] snapshots and vmdk

2015-05-29 Thread Boylan, Ross
Does libvirt support snapshotting when the virtual disk comes from a vmdk file? http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Snapshots#Desired_functionality seems to say no, since it says "'virsh snapshot', which requires all disk images to be qcow2". OTOH, man virsh, http://libvirt.org/formatsnapshot.html,