Re: [Qemu-devel] -snapshot

[Amador Pahim]

Hello Stefan,

Thank you for your answer. Just one more question: If, while my
"snapshot" vms are running, the main disk is modified by a non
"snapshot" vm? For example, installing some extra software.. this can
freeze vms or something?

Regards,
Pahim

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Amador Pahim <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Is a bad idea if I run multiples "qemu" vms pointing to the same disk
>> img using "-snapshot" parameter? What kind of problem may I have?
>
> It should work fine.  -snapshot means that QEMU creates a temporary
> qcow2 file backed by the disk image you've given it.  No changes will
> be made to your disk image - it is read-only.
>
> Stefan
>