[one-users] save changes in persistent VM disk without shutdown

[Ruben S. Montero]

Hi

I'm afraid that is not possible in 3.8.1, However this is one of our
highest priority issues for 4.0. Probably this will be implemented as
disk snapshots...

Cheers

Ruben

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:29 AM,  <knawnd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I wonder if there is any way to save changes made in persistent VM disk
> without shutting down that VM? The 'onevm stop' command saves persistent VM
> disk in /var/lib/one/datastore/0/<VMID> on the front-end but not in
> /var/lib/one/datastores/1/ where all registered in datastore VM images are
> kept.
> 'onevm saveas' command is not allowed for persistent VM disk.
> So in order to save changes made in persistent VM disk (what can be treated
> as making backup) these VM has to be shut down and another VM has to be
> created e.g. by executing 'onetemplate instantiate' command what resets
> accounting and history and not preserving assigned resourced.
>
> Best regards,
> Nikolay.
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