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== Detailed Description == | == Detailed Description == | ||
qemu and libvirt have all the major pieces in place for performing safe VM snapshots/checkpoints, however there isn't any simple discoverable UI. This feature will track adding that UI to virt-manager, and any other virt stack bits that need to be fixed/improved. | qemu and libvirt have all the major pieces in place for performing safe VM snapshots/checkpoints, however there isn't any simple discoverable UI. This feature will track adding that UI to virt-manager, and any other virt stack bits that need to be fixed/improved. This includes adding functionality to libvirt to support deleting and rebasing to external snapshots. | ||
== Benefit to Fedora == | == Benefit to Fedora == |
Revision as of 02:43, 17 July 2013
VM Snapshot UI with virt-manager
Summary
Add UI to virt-manager for easily managing VM snapshots.
Owner
- Name: Cole Robinson
- Email: crobinso@redhat.com
- Release notes owner:
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 20
- Last updated: 2013-06-11
- Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Detailed Description
qemu and libvirt have all the major pieces in place for performing safe VM snapshots/checkpoints, however there isn't any simple discoverable UI. This feature will track adding that UI to virt-manager, and any other virt stack bits that need to be fixed/improved. This includes adding functionality to libvirt to support deleting and rebasing to external snapshots.
Benefit to Fedora
- Making snapshots easier to use means more QA folks and packagers will use them, makes their lives easier.
- End users have been asking it for a while, gives them incentive to update or make the jump to Fedora.
Scope
- Proposal owners:
- Verify that all the libvirt APIs are fully implemented, some pieces were missing at last check.
- Implement virt-manager UI
- Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Upgrade/compatibility impact
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
How To Test
TBD when work is testable.
User Experience
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Dependencies
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Documentation
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virt_Live_Snapshots
- http://libvirt.org/formatsnapshot.html
- Snapshot section here: http://linux.die.net/man/1/virsh
- XXX: Should blog about this when it's testable
Release Notes
KVM VM snapshots can now be easily managed using virt-manager.