Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server] vzdump: use minimal VM config for offline backup

2020-09-07 Thread Thomas Lamprecht
On 07.09.20 08:59, Dominik Csapak wrote: > does that not break the feature that > we can start a vm that started a backup while stopped? > > atm we can start a backup on a stopped vm, and then simply start > it, without aborting the backup. if i read the patch > correctly, the vm now has just a mi

Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server] vzdump: use minimal VM config for offline backup

2020-09-07 Thread Dominik Csapak
does that not break the feature that we can start a vm that started a backup while stopped? atm we can start a backup on a stopped vm, and then simply start it, without aborting the backup. if i read the patch correctly, the vm now has just a minimal config and not what the user configured On 8/

[pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server] vzdump: use minimal VM config for offline backup

2020-08-24 Thread Stefan Reiter
In case we backup a stopped VM, we start an instance of QEMU to run the backup job. This instance will be killed afterwards without ever running the actual VM, so there's no need to potentially allocate or use host system resources for features never used. The minimal_trim_opts array contains elem