Bug 485176
| Summary: | RFE: Please implement a 'checkpoint' option for 'virsh save' | ||||||
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| Product: | [Community] Virtualization Tools | Reporter: | Matt McCowan <libvirt> | ||||
| Component: | libvirt | Assignee: | Daniel Veillard <veillard> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | berrange, crobinso, dash, xen-maint | ||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2010-05-25 15:11:13 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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this idea upstream http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00205.html libvirt now has full support for doing live snapshots of guests + their storage.
commit 2f992d4be4c6157feec4f88ac586f2c50a8fd466
Author: Chris Lalancette <clalance>
Date: Wed Mar 31 16:33:13 2010 -0400
Snapshot API framework.
Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance>
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Created attachment 331653 [details] Implements --checkpoint to avoid a shutdown when 'virsh save' run Description of problem: A backup scenario I'm working on requires a clean snapshot of both VM memory and disk state. Something like a 'virsh save --checkpoint domain filename' shouldn't shutdown the VM shutdown, just leave it paused. It can then be resumed after the backup system has done its thing. A '--checkpoint' option just like the migrate '--live' feature would enable a 'virsh save' to be done that leaves the VM in a paused state rather than shutting it down. Similar to what is already available in Xen doing an 'xm save -c domain filename' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 'virsh save domain filename' always shuts the domain down Actual results: A non-running domain Expected results: In the case of KVM hopefully a paused domain that can be resumed Additional info: Patch created (against 0.6.0) to implement --checkpoint in 'virsh save'