Re: [Qemu-devel] Online image backup

2007-12-10 Thread Ricardo Almeida
> > 2.1 Switch to snapshot mode > > How do you switch to snapshot mode *while* the VM is running, i.e. > without stopping and restarting qemu? The only way I know to enter that > mode is using the -snapshot switch at invocation time and I don't think > it can be done online. As I said, I'm just a

Re: [Qemu-devel] Online image backup

2007-12-10 Thread Lorenzo Mancini
Ricardo Almeida wrote: Fabrice, that's just part of the problem. A full automated remote backup service for qemu VMs should work like this: 1. send a "savevm state" command to qemu; 2. wait for savevm completion; 2.1 Switch to snapshot mode How do you switch to snapshot mode *while* th

Re: [Qemu-devel] Online image backup

2007-12-05 Thread Ricardo Almeida
Hi, Discalmer: I'm just a user of QEmu :) > Fabrice, that's just part of the problem. A full automated remote > backup service for qemu VMs should work like this: > > 1. send a "savevm state" command to qemu; > 2. wait for savevm completion; 2.1 Switch to snapshot mode > 3. perform an *

Re: [Qemu-devel] Online image backup

2007-12-05 Thread Lorenzo Mancini
Matteo Bertini wrote: Hello everyone, is there any support for an online image backup? Or some direction to have it? Imagine I have an emulated server. How can I make an online backup of the server state? If I'm right in the actual design this is very hard. Or there are some image internals u

Re: [Qemu-devel] Online image backup

2007-11-20 Thread Fabrice Bellard
Matteo Bertini wrote: > Hello everyone, > > is there any support for an online image backup? Or some direction to > have it? > > Imagine I have an emulated server. How can I make an online backup of > the server state? > > If I'm right in the actual design this is very hard. > > Or there are so