Virt Live Snapshots
Summary
Live snapshots allow a user to take a snapshot of a virtual machine while the guest is running, thus preserving the state and data of a VM at a specific point in time.
Owner
- Name: Cole Robinson
- Email: crobinso@redhat.com
- Name: Jeff Cody
- Email: jtc@redhat.com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 18
- Last updated: June 6 2012
- Percentage of completion: 60%
Detailed Description
XXX: Point out that while qemu has had 'snapshot' capabilities for a long time, it was not 'live' and required pausing guest operation for the duration of the snapshot process. This is more a true snapshot.
Benefit to Fedora
Scope
- Live snapshot support in qemu (DONE, still need to package 1.1 for fedora)
- Live snapshot support in qemu-ga (DONE)
- Live snapshot support in libvirt (DONE)
- Apps
- Snapshot support in ovirt? (unknown)
- Snapshot support in virt-manager? (not done)
- Snapshot support in boxes? (probably out of scope)
How To Test
TBD
User Experience
Virtualization users will have a more production ready mechanism for snapshotting than QEMU previously supported (no loss of uptime). Exposing snapshotting in tools like ovirt and/or virt-manager will essentially be a new and compelling feature for those users.
Dependencies
None
Contingency Plan
Since this is brand new functionality, if it doesn't make it in time for F18, nothing has changed. We just drop this feature page.