Linux KVM Virtualization Guest Snapshot Using virsh snapshot Functionality

External

• https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-create-create-snapshot-in-linux-kvm-vmdomain/

Internal

• Linux Virtualization Concepts - KVM Virtual Machine Snapshot
• Guest Operations - Snapshot a Guest Virtual Machine

Overview

• TODO based on https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-create-create-snapshot-in-linux-kvm-vmdomain/
• Describe live snapshot
• Describe the snapshot history maintained by the virtualization host.

List All Snapshots for a Guest

virsh snapshot-list <domain-name>

Take a Snapshot

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This is how disk image snapshots are taken:

Take a disk image snapshot with qemu-img