RE: [Xen-users] cloning guests between Dom0's ?

[Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ferreira, N.L. wrote:

> For a LVM LV you can do the following (using the LVM snapshot) 
> without shutting down the domU:
> lvcreate -s /dev/vg/domU -L1G -n domU_snap
> mkdir /mnt/domU_snap
> mount /dev/vg/domU_snap /mnt/domU_snap
> tar cvjpf /storage/path/domU_snapshot.tbz /mnt/domU_snap
> lvremove /dev/vg/domU_snap
Is this correct ? I know the LVM snapshot will give you a "point in 
time" image, but won't the DomU have unwritten changes in it's cache 
- giving you a very unclean filesystem ?
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