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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1179219] Re: segfault in alloc_refcount_block
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1179219] Re: segfault in alloc_refcount_block |
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Wed, 15 May 2013 10:45:48 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:43:31PM -0000, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On 13-05-12 05:14 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > First, having a single qcow2 file open for read-write access by more
> > than one process in unsupported.
>
> But I don't, if I understand how qcow2 snapshots work. Let me apologize
> if I was not clear. Each of the VMs have their own snapshot of the
> common "origin" qcow2 disk. If I understand correctly in such a
> configuration, only one VM has each snapshot qcow2 open for read-write
> access and they all have the "origin" open read-only, is that correct?
> Surely that must be supported, yes?
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b template.img vm001.qcow2
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b template.img vm002.qcow2
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b template.img vm003.qcow2
$ ...launch vm001-vm002...
This is safe. The template.img backing file is open read-only.
Did you do anything else?
Stefan
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