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Adrian Lopez
Asked: 2020-05-04 06:15:37 +0800 CST

Where are libvirt "saved states/snapshots" stored?

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I have a .qcow2 image, and I can port it easily to a different computer. But I'd also like to port its saved state. Where are they stored?

I'm on Manjaro/Arch.

linux kvm-virtualization libvirt qemu

1 Answers

  1. You can view the location of the VM block devices by using the following command: 

    virsh domblklist VM1

    The whole backing chaing of the block device can be seen: 

    qemu-img info --backing-chain /var/lib/libvirt/images/VM1.snap1

    The clone procedure was perfectly desribed here: Clone KVM virtual machine with snapshots

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