Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8

[Anthony Liguori]

On 06/10/2010 04:43 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Huh, why this? Seems I still haven't understood all of qcow2 then... I
> always thought that there's just a specific offset where VM state
> starts, but no explicit end.
>    

A live snapshot can last for a very long time.  What happens if you need 
to allocate a new block for disk I/O while saving a snapshot?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Kevin
>