Whenever I tried to talk to the KVM IRC channel, I get told I need a much newer version than RedHat ships in EL and they don't support the old version in EL... So I wouldn't get my hopes up.

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James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University


-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Sommerseth
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 6:51 PM
To: Todd And Margo Chester; [log in to unmask]
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: KVM live snapshotting

On 18/07/13 21:19, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
> On 07/18/2013 01:34 AM, Steve Hill wrote:
>> On 18.07.13 00:54, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>
>>> Start by updating to SL 6.4 with all the KVM updates? KVM is
>>> interesting, but not mature, so any more difficult operations such as
>>> snapshotting are likely to benefit from using the latest releases.
>>
>> I've tried that - no change.  Although as far as I can tell the qemu-kvm
>> in the SL 6.2 security updates (which I was originally running) is the
>> same version that is shipped in 6.4, so wasn't upgraded.
>>
>> As mentioned, I've not found any especially good documentation online
>> specifically referring to Scientific Linux / RHEL, etc. But something I
>> did find suggested that RHEL doesn't support live snapshotting but RHEV
>> does.  I don't know how accurate this is or how it relates to Scientific
>> Linux though.
>>
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> You can try asking the developers directly over at
> 
>       Spice-devel mailing list
>       [log in to unmask]
>       http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel

No offence, but maybe sending people to the right place is a good idea.
 SPICE is related to both KVM and QEMU, but it's still not the same
thing.  Same same but different, kind of.  So may I recommend one of
these lists instead?

* KVM mailing lists and IRC channels
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Lists%2C_IRC

* QEMU mailing lists
http://wiki.qemu.org/MailingLists

> They take questions from the general public.  (They
> can get "cranky" though.)

Yeah, I can understand that though ... asking about things in the wrong
list can also cause such issues.


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kind regards,

David Sommerseth