Re: [Qemu-devel] snapshots

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:13 AM, chandra shekar
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,everyone i have applied this  patch
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-09/msg01662.html  to
> qemu source and compiled my qemu source and now i like to
> bring the snapshot out of the image file so i used
>
>
> qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O qcow2 -s one guest1.img
> where:
>
> one -> is the snapshot i created in guest1.img and guest1.img contains
> windows xp
>
>  but i get an error
>
> convert: invalid option -- 's'
> qemu-img: Could not open 'one'

Looks like you used your system qemu-img tool which is not compiled
with the patch.  Make sure to use the patched binary (./qemu-img).

Stefan