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From: | Christopher Pereira |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img convert of a backing qcow2 snapshot (THANKS) |
Date: | Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:16:31 -0400 |
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On 12-Jul-16 10:07, Eric Blake wrote:
On 07/11/2016 09:42 PM, Christopher Pereira wrote:Hi, Let's say we have this chain: base <--- sn1 <--- sn2 <--- active Can we shutdown the VM and "qemu-img convert sn2 -O qcow2 sn2_new" and rebase active to sn2_new like this: sn2_new <--- active ?Yes. As long as the guest-visible data in 'base <- sn1 <- sn2' is identical to the guest-visible data in 'sn2_new', then it doesn't matter which of the two files is used as the backing file for 'active'.
Nice! Thanks Eric for confirming and for all your brilliant work.
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