Raw and qcow2 as well as formats that are supported for compatibility with QEMU supports many image file formats that can be used with VMs as well as withĪny of the tools (like qemu-img). State is not saved or restored properly (in particular USB). They cannot cope with removable devices if they are removed orĪ few device drivers still have incomplete snapshot support so their VM snapshots currently have the following known limitations: You can always make VM snapshots, but they are deleted as soon as you When using the (unrelated) -snapshot option Snapshot would need a full copy of all the disk images). Shared among all the snapshots to save disk space (otherwise each Not shown by info snapshots because the associated disk sectors are The size of a snapshot in a disk image is difficult to evaluate and is

The disk image snapshots are stored in every disk image. State info is stored in the first qcow2 non removable and writableīlock device. Info snapshots) and a snapshot of every writable disk image. System Emulation Guest Hardware Specifications.System Emulation Management and Interoperability.

Managing device boot order with bootindex properties.

Keys in the character backend multiplexer.

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