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Re: [Xen-users] xen and snapshot partition ?

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Subject:	Re: [Xen-users] xen and snapshot partition ?
From:	Thomas Halinka <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:18:11 +0200
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Hey Ricardo,

since snapshots are writeable you can prepare something like a template
or golden-image snapshot this and let your xen-guests work on that
snapshot.

You can prepare many snapshots from a lvol.

hth,

Thomas

PS: openqrm makes massive usage of this ;)


Am Montag, den 30.03.2009, 15:54 +0200 schrieb Riccardo Veraldi:
> Hello,
> is there a way to start a domU under xen so that the guest is start from 
> a file read only partition
> and all write changes are written into a separate snapshot file ?
> I mean the same which works with qemu-kvm snapshot=on, is there 
> something similar for Xen ?
> this is very useful to start a guest from a template file image, and 
> then write hte specific
> guest machine into a snapshot file image or partition.
> How to do it with Xen ?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
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