Hi,

While there are a few howtos floating around, what is the standard way to snapshot guests?

I went through and converted from raw to pre allocated meta data qcow2 images for this purpose.

Some howtos suggest to do an xml snapshot file as so;

<domainsnapshot>
   <name>UbuntuServer_10.10-16032011</name>
   <description>Snapshot of OS install and updates</description>
</domainsnapshot>

And then to run as so;

virsh snapshot-create UbuntuServer_10.10 UbuntuServer_10.10-ss.xml

Seems a bit over kill.

I was thinking more along the lines of this;

qemu-img snapshot -c $date $filename

qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O qcow2 -s $date $filename $filename-$date

Or something like this.Anyways, hoping to see how you all are doing this for best practice sort of thing.

- aurf