1. 03 9月, 2011 1 次提交
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      snapshot: allow recreation of metadata · af65695a
      Eric Blake 提交于
      The first two flags are essential for being able to replicate
      snapshot hierarchies across multiple hosts, which will come in
      handy for supervised migrations.  It also allows a management app
      to take a snapshot of a transient domain, save the metadata, stop
      the domain, recreate a new transient domain by the same name,
      redefine the snapshot, then revert to it.
      
      This is not quite as convenient as leaving the metadata behind
      after a domain is no longer around, but doing that has a few
      problems: 1. the libvirt API can only delete snapshot metadata
      if there is a valid domain handle to use to get to that snapshot
      object - if stale data is left behind without a domain, there is
      no way to request that the data be cleaned up. 2. creating a new
      domain with the same name but different uuid than the older
      domain where a snapshot existed cannot use the older snapshot
      data; this risks confusing libvirt, and forbidding the stale
      data is similar to the recent patch to forbid stale managed save.
      
      The first two flags might be useful on hypervisors with no metadata,
      but only for modifying the notion of the current snapshot;
      however, I don't know how to do that for ESX or VBox.
      
      The third flag is a convenience option, to combine a creation with
      a delete metadata into one step.  It is trivial for hypervisors
      with no metadata.
      
      The qemu changes will be involved enough to warrant a separate patch.
      
      * include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
      (VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_REDEFINE)
      (VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_CURRENT)
      (VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_NO_METADATA): New flags.
      * src/libvirt.c (virDomainSnapshotCreateXML): Document them, and
      enforce mutual exclusion.
      * src/esx/esx_driver.c (esxDomainSnapshotCreateXML): Trivial
      implementation.
      * src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c (vboxDomainSnapshotCreateXML): Likewise.
      * docs/formatsnapshot.html.in: Document re-creation.
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  2. 06 4月, 2010 1 次提交