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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20120426/958c80d7/attachment-0005.html>