Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] live snapshot, live merge, live block migration

[Jes Sorensen]

On 05/20/11 14:49, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Jes Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 05/20/11 14:19, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>> I'm interested in what the API for snapshots would look like.
>>
>> I presume you're talking external snapshots here? The API is really what
>> should be defined by libvirt, so you get a unified API that can work
>> both on QEMU level snapshots as well as enterprise storage, host file
>> system snapshots etc.
> 
> Thanks for the pointers on external snapshots using image files.  I'm
> really thinking about the libvirt API.
> 
> Basically I'm not sure we'll implement the right things if we don't
> think through the API that the user sees first.

Right, I agree. There's a lot of variables there, and they are not
necessarily easy to map into a single namespace. I am not sure it should
be done either......

Cheers,
Jes