[pve-devel] RFC: vm cloning implementation proposal

[Dietmar Maurer]

> could you give an example for sheepdog,rbd? (as we need a snapshot of the
> disk) What happen to the original vm when you create the template ?
> 
> Does it create a snapshot of the disks, and snapshot name(on the storage) is
> the template name ?

We need to define the terms we use:

a.) live-snapshot (qemu-server snapshot, saved inside VM configuration)
b.) volume snapshot (storage internal snapshot of a volume)

When you create a template, you only need to create a volume snapshot.

Is that more clear now?