Re: [Qemu-devel] live snapshot wiki updated

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Jes Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 07/18/11 16:08, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jes Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I have been updating the live snapshot wiki for qemu to try and cover
>>> the commands we will want for async snapshot handling too.
>>>
>>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Snapshots
>>
>> Regarding fd passing, do we even support SELinux today with backing files?
>
> Not sure I understand what you mean. The current code should be happy to
> take an existing file or a raw device for the snapshot.

Sorry, I was off on a tangent.

I think today QEMU does not support opening image files with a backing
file purely using file descriptors.  We currently require the ability
to open files.

Stefan