Re: [Qemu-devel] Snapshots ide0-hd0 issue

2010-10-18 Thread Ubuntu Explorer
An additional note is that, qemu-img snapshot -l shows VM_Size = 0 Has anyone observed this issue before? Regards -- On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Ubuntu Explorer wrote: > I also read the following > > VM snapshots currently have the following known limitations: > They cannot cope with re

Re: [Qemu-devel] Snapshots ide0-hd0 issue

2010-10-18 Thread Ubuntu Explorer
I also read the following VM snapshots currently have the following known limitations: They cannot cope with removable devices if they are removed or inserted after a snapshot is done. A few device drivers still have incomplete snapshot support so their state is not saved or restored properly (in

Re: [Qemu-devel] Snapshots ide0-hd0 issue

2010-10-18 Thread Ubuntu Explorer
Thanks for your help. But, after commenting out snapshot option, I still cannot save the VM state into the ide0-hd0 block device. Here is some more information about the problem. I am trying to do the following a. info block shows virtio, ide0-hd0 b. savevm snapshot_name c. info snapshots

Re: [Qemu-devel] Snapshots ide0-hd0 issue

2010-10-17 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Ubuntu Explorer wrote: > I am trying to implement snapshot saving and loading from command line using > qemu. I am using both the drive and disk options as follows. > \ > --disk \ > ...other options \ > -drive file=, > index=0,media=disk,snapshot=on,if=ide,type=

[Qemu-devel] Snapshots ide0-hd0 issue

2010-10-17 Thread Ubuntu Explorer
Hi, I am trying to implement snapshot saving and loading from command line using qemu. I am using both the drive and disk options as follows. \ --disk \ ...other options \ -drive file=, index=0,media=disk,snapshot=on,if=ide,type=drive,cache=writethrough I am not running latest version of qemu,