Re: [Qemu-devel] Combining -loadvm and -snapshot

2019-02-13 Thread Drew DeVault
On 2019-02-13 11:46 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Reading from the backing file would be correct in your special case > (because the overlay was only just created and doesn't contain data > yet), but generally speaking, this would make the disk content > inconsistent because it would mix newer data from

Re: [Qemu-devel] Combining -loadvm and -snapshot

2019-02-13 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 13.02.2019 um 07:07 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben: > Cc'ing the QCOW2 folks. > > Drew DeVault writes: > > > I recently ran into an issue where I found I couldn't combine the > > -loadvm and -snapshot flags, nor any conceivable combination of > > alternate approaches like loadvm via the mo

Re: [Qemu-devel] Combining -loadvm and -snapshot

2019-02-12 Thread Markus Armbruster
Cc'ing the QCOW2 folks. Drew DeVault writes: > I recently ran into an issue where I found I couldn't combine the > -loadvm and -snapshot flags, nor any conceivable combination of > alternate approaches like loadvm via the monitor. Independently, both > options work as expected, but together I ge

[Qemu-devel] Combining -loadvm and -snapshot

2019-02-12 Thread Drew DeVault
I recently ran into an issue where I found I couldn't combine the -loadvm and -snapshot flags, nor any conceivable combination of alternate approaches like loadvm via the monitor. Independently, both options work as expected, but together I get this error: qemu-system-x86_64: Device 'virtio0' does