From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: lampahome <pahome.chen@mirlab.org>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Can I convert backing file to internal snapshot?
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 15:44:02 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180912074402.GB11164@lemon.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB3eZfvRJRR1k0X1MQivPMcLRNZR07yv1ZxBiDAkF3qOryK0UQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 09/12 15:35, lampahome wrote:
> I have two qcow2 A & B, and A is backing file of B.
>
> Can I convert both A&B to one image and containing data of both?
>
> ex:
> one new image will contain data of A and B. When I check it by qemu-img
> info, I can see one snapshot in the new image.
I believe it's possible to create an internal snapshot in A and then qemu-img
commit B to A. From here, the active content is B, and the snapshot is A.
Fam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-12 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-12 7:35 [Qemu-devel] Can I convert backing file to internal snapshot? lampahome
2018-09-12 7:44 ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2018-09-14 4:23 ` lampahome
2018-09-14 6:05 ` Fam Zheng
2018-09-14 14:52 ` Eric Blake
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