[pve-devel] VM snapshot problem

[Dietmar Maurer]

> >>I do not see a big problem - why do you think that does not work for
> >>VM snapshot purposes?
> 
> because raw file, is just a flat raw ....no metadatas, no copy on write.
> Did I miss something ?

Yes, you miss something ;-)

Lets says you have the following file:

vm-100-disk-1.raw

You can make a snapshot with:

# mv vm-100-disk-1.raw vm-snap1-100-disk-1.raw
# qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b   vm-snap1-100-disk-1.raw vm-100-disk-1.raw

got it?