On 04/14/2012 05:04 AM, nux at li.nux.ro wrote: > Joseph L. Casale writes: > >> I might be needing to utilize one of the provided virtualization packages either in a headless >> console only setup of CentOS or on my desktop. I havent used anything but ESXi in ages >> except virtualbox which I did not like at all. Most of the guests which I will need to run will be >> wnidows based and last I looked at this a few years ago, windows guests ran pathetic. What >> are some more current opinions on how windows guests run on the available packages compared >> to ESXi? >> >> The version numbers between the rhel virtio-win drivers and the publicly available ones are >> significantly different, and it looks like you need a rhel sub for theirs. Anyone know the state >> of the ones on the fedora repo? > > I've been using those drivers from Fedora for quite a while now for M$ > guests, they work fine for what I need. > >> >> Has kvm made snapshots (without lvm) as slick as vmware yet? > > Nope, you will have to use lvm; a small price to pay to be "free" ;-) > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but ... I create my images to be used for virtual machines like this (here's one for a virtual server called "fred"): qemu-img -f qcow2 fred.img 10G When I want a snapshot, I power off the server (not sure if I really need to do that first) and create a snapshot called "joe" like this: qemu-img snapshot -c joe fred.img To revert back to it: qemu-img snapshot -a joe fred.img And to list all the snapshots for my image: qemu-img snapshot -l fred.img I hope this helps, Charlie