Re: [Qemu-devel] Issue with snapshot outside qcow2 disk - qemu 0.14.0

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:06 PM, SAURAV LAHIRI <address@hidden> wrote:
> Following steps were executed to copy a snapshot outside the original qcow2 
> but looks like there is an issue.
>
> 1. VM(vm1) brought up with a qcow2 image(/home/user1/lucid-vm2). This is a 
> lucid 10.04 VM.
>
> 2. Next snapshot created for the qcow2
>    #qemu-img snapshot -c snap1 /home/user1/lucid-vm2

It is not safe to run qemu-img while the VM is using the image file.

Stefan