[pve-devel] qemu-server: allow clone from snapshot Patch V2

[Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG]

Am 12.02.2014 12:40, schrieb Dietmar Maurer:
> I am still a bit scared about possible side effect.

No problem - do you have special ones in mind? So may be i can check or
workaround?

> But worse, it does not work with most storage types anyways.

That's correct.

> I agree that this can be handy in some special cases, but the current
> snapshot/clone also works (yes, it is slower for your special case).

And might cost a lot of space. If you've VMs with multiple hundret GB of
storage - full cloning takes a very long time and space.

> So this patch is nothing I want to add for 3.2, because we want to release soon.

No problem.

> Maybe you can run further test internally the next few weeks, and resend the patches
> (or a reminder) a few week after the 3.2 release - would that work for you?

Sure.

Thanks!

Greets,
Stefan