Qemu-img Differences between Snapshots: Difference between revisions

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  virsh vol-clone --pool main-storage-pool --prealloc-metadata build-guest.qcow2 build-guest-after.qcow2
  virsh vol-clone --pool main-storage-pool --prealloc-metadata build-guest.qcow2 build-guest-after.qcow2


4. Revert the original filesystem to the state before the event, by reverting to snapshot, with [[Qemu-img#Revert_the_Disk_to_a_Saved_State|qemu-img snapshot -a <''snapshot-tag''> <''volume-name''>]]
4. Revert the original filesystem to the state before the event, by reverting to snapshot, with [[Qemu-img#Revert_the_Disk_to_a_Saved_State|qemu-img snapshot -a <''snapshot-tag''> <''volume-name''>]].

Revision as of 18:44, 18 December 2017

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Overview

This is a procedure that can be used to list differences between qemu-img snapshots. It is probably not optimal, and there are probably tools that do this better, but at the time of the writing, I did not know about them.

Procedure

1. Take a snapshot of the filesystem before the event whose effects you want to analyze: qemu-img snapshot -c ...

2. Trigger the event.

3. Save the state of the filesystem after the event, by cloning the filesystem, with virsh vol-clone, after the VM guest has been shut down:

virsh vol-clone --pool main-storage-pool --prealloc-metadata build-guest.qcow2 build-guest-after.qcow2

4. Revert the original filesystem to the state before the event, by reverting to snapshot, with qemu-img snapshot -a <snapshot-tag> <volume-name>.