From 73b647d4189ced1f0189b53290cf22c1531219bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chen Hanxiao Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 15:23:52 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] virsh: clarify snapshot --live In libvirt, snapshot means disk snapshot. snapshot --live is more like VM checkpoint. Make it clear in virsh.pod. Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik --- tools/virsh.pod | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod index a6e9516ea4..1e36ee16ae 100644 --- a/tools/virsh.pod +++ b/tools/virsh.pod @@ -3915,8 +3915,9 @@ this. If this flag is not specified, then some hypervisors may fail after partially performing the action, and B must be used to see whether any partial changes occurred. -If I<--live> is specified, libvirt takes the snapshot while the guest is -running. This increases the size of the memory image of the external +If I<--live> is specified, libvirt takes the snapshot (checkpoint) while +the guest is running. Both disk snapshot and domain memory snapshot are +taken. This increases the size of the memory image of the external checkpoint. This is currently supported only for external checkpoints. Existence of snapshot metadata will prevent attempts to B -- 2.39.5