On 02/13/2011 10:21 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >> Could you then pause the virtual machine and safely take an LVM >> snapshot, continue the VM and then mount the snapshot on the host and do >> a backup? > Probably not. If you pause the guest then the filesystem on it might be in > an inconsistent state. You will be able to make a snapshot since that > happens on the block level but you might have problems mounting it. > > Regards, > Dennis I've heard of somebody doing something to make this work. I think you could create another LV (from inside the VM - assuming a linux VM) on top of whatever raw partition was available to the VM. Then you could take the snapshot within the VM (which I believe guarantees that the filesystem is sync'ed when the snapshot is taken.) Then you use losetup and lvscan to make the lvm vg available on the host and I think you could access the snapshot without even pausing the vm. Nataraj