[Qemu-discuss] qcow2 - overlay vs snapshot

I am running a debian server on a KVM/qemu machine. we are using overlays (1 to max 3 levels) when testing new things and commit them back to base when tests where good. Now I accidentally saw that qcow2 (or maybe qemu in general) aswell allows snapshots and I wonder what the difference betwee

[Qemu-discuss] wrong command on snapshot wiki

|I am not 100% sure whether this is the right place to raise this issue. Hopefully someone with more insight can forward this to right person on this wikipage >>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/CreateSnapshot a wrong command for creating snapshots is posted. |qemu-img create -f qcow2

[Qemu-discuss] wrong command on snapshot wiki

|I am not 100% sure whether this is the right place to raise this issue. Hopefully someone with more insight can forward this to right person on this wikipage >>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/CreateSnapshot a wrong command for creating snapshots is posted. |qemu-img create -f qcow2

[Qemu-discuss] qcow2 - can you take a snapshot of an cow (overlay) image?

I am trying to understand the difference between copy-on-write image (overlay images) and snapshots in qemu. And to use which of both for what purpose Looks to me understanding how to master these tools would open up many possibilities One question I have is: Can you take a snapshot of a cow (

[Qemu-discuss] Vagrant & kvm pre

first time user of this mailing list ... please kindly point me at the right place whether it wasn't here.I am running an ubuntu server (14.04) which runs a samba fileserver and hosts several KVM/qemu machines. Now I'd like to run a Vagrant box (pretty new to vagrant as well) in parallel to those

[Qemu-discuss] qemu-image snapshot -c on a running machine

just wondering whether it is possible/advisable to make/delete (internal) snapshots with    qemu-img snapshot [-c/d] [snap_name] [image.qcow2]on a running VM? or does it have to be shutdown beforehand?

Learning materials kvm/qemu/libvirt

I want to get a better grip on virtualization based on kvm/qemu/libvirt and even have a  week period with free time almost exclusively for that coming up in the summer. Can anybody recommend good online learning resources for someone with a yet quite foggy basic understanding of things? thanks an

Re: Need support for qemu

I don't think sending screenshots to report an issue will get you very far in a mailing list such as this. On 11/2/24 4:16 PM, Aryan Rai via wrote: Hi there, I'm trying to install FortiGate in gns3 on Ubuntu (physical machine) but showing this error, please help. error screenshot is attached.