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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] savevm: prevent snapshot overwriting and ge


From: Luiz Capitulino
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] savevm: prevent snapshot overwriting and generate a default name
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:43:01 -0300

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:34:57 +0200
Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:

> Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > This patch address two issues.
> >
> > 1) When savevm is run using an previously saved snapshot id or name, it will
> > delete the original and create a new one, using the same id and name and not
> > prompting the user of what just happened.
> >
> > This behaviour is not good, IMHO.
> 
> Debatable.

Automatically destroying previously saved data without any notice seems
a quite bad behavior to me.

> > We add a '-f' parameter to savevm, to really force that to happen, in case 
> > the
> > user really wants to.
> 
> Incompatible change, looks like it'll break libvirt.  Doesn't mean we
> can't do it ever, but right now may not be the best time.  Perhaps after
> savevm & friends are fully functional in QMP.

Chris, could you please check whether this impacts libvirt?



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