From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76E761381FA for ; Mon, 5 May 2014 07:10:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F042E0B2C; Mon, 5 May 2014 07:10:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 863A5E0AF0 for ; Mon, 5 May 2014 07:10:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.134] (helo=smtp3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhD2Z-0000uv-41 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 09:10:19 +0200 Received: from 53579160.cm-6-8c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.87.145.96] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhD2W-0004uN-Qz for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 09:10:19 +0200 Received: from andromeda.localnet (unknown [10.20.13.150]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4B35E4C for ; Mon, 5 May 2014 09:09:43 +0200 (CEST) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 09:09:25 +0200 Message-ID: <4472731.lF19jkF6zf@andromeda> User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/3.10.25-gentoo; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <2560293.AAjodFatl3@andromeda> References: <5364C0F9.3000906@xunil.at> <53672B6F.3020505@xunil.at> <2560293.AAjodFatl3@andromeda> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Ziggo-spambar: --- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -3.6 X-Ziggo-spamreport: ALL_TRUSTED=-1,PROLO_TRUST_RDNS=-3,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.363,TW_QE=0.077 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: eb9697f4-77f6-4ec7-a6c4-202501ccf653 X-Archives-Hash: fc1ccaed9c366482359d57e5530b7ee0 On Monday, May 05, 2014 08:52:08 AM J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Monday, May 05, 2014 08:10:55 AM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Am 04.05.2014 21:22, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > > > On Sunday, May 04, 2014 09:03:08 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > >> People run KVM-hosts with storage on ZFS ... nice with the > > >> snapshots etc ... > > > > > > Does KVM support running snapshots? Eg. also storing the memory and > > > registers? I have not found any indication that KVM supports that. > > > > > > Without that, KVM is useless to me. > > > > KVM != ZFS ... you could use ZFS with other hypervisors. > > I know, comment was about KVM. ZFS is on my list, but I don't want to use > files for the VMs. > > > AFAI understand you can take snapshots using libvirt (which in turn > > controls the underlying qemu-kvm etc). > > And I found no evidence on memory taken along with the snapshot. Only disk. > (unfortunately) > I will start a new thread about this with the KVM mailing lists later today. Update: I just found the following page (didn't show up last year using Google): http://redes-privadas-virtuales.blogspot.nl/2011/03/taking-snapshots-on-kvm-with-libvirt.html Memory-snapshot appears possible as well. Time to start testing this. -- Joost