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retspen / webvirtmgr

WebVirtMgr panel for manage virtual machine
http://retspen.github.io
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Live snapshotting #231

Closed afk4life closed 10 years ago

afk4life commented 10 years ago

Is this in the plan? Having to stop VMs to backup is not really workable.

ionstorm66 commented 10 years ago

Would be easy to add for qcow2, I don't know about LVM, raw, or qcow. Would be easy to test.

gitshaw commented 10 years ago

for live snapshots im currently using https://github.com/syndicut/virt-backup - this takes a snapshot of the running instance and then uses dd to copy the image to a local file. To use virt-backup and LVM snapshots i change vrtManager/create.py line starting 146 - currently instances get a disk type of 'file' - i think for devices under /dev this should be: disk type='block'

http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/QEMUSwitchToLibvirt

danielclasen commented 10 years ago

Why did you close this @retspen? Is this feature planned for the feature or is @gitshaw s way the way to go?

gelim commented 8 years ago

Hi, while the project seems in a dormant state, missing live snapshoting feature is a blocker for a lot of people I guess. Having to use virt-manager to achieve that feature is defeating the purpose of using a web manager interface unfortunately.