Man page or keyword search:   man All Sections 1 - General Commands 2 - System Calls 3 - Subroutines, Functions 4 - Special Files 5 - File Formats 6 - Games and Screensavers 7 - Macros and Conventions 8 - Maintenence Commands 9 - Kernel Interface New Commands Server 4.4BSD AIX Alpinelinux Archlinux Aros BSDOS BSDi Bifrost CentOS Cygwin Darwin Debian DigitalUNIX DragonFly ElementaryOS Fedora FreeBSD Gentoo GhostBSD HP-UX Haiku Hurd IRIX Inferno JazzOS Kali Knoppix LinuxMint MacOSX Mageia Mandriva Manjaro Minix MirBSD NeXTSTEP NetBSD OPENSTEP OSF1 OpenBSD OpenDarwin OpenIndiana OpenMandriva OpenServer OpenSuSE OpenVMS Oracle PC-BSD Peanut Pidora Plan9 QNX Raspbian RedHat Scientific Slackware SmartOS Solaris SuSE SunOS Syllable Tru64 UNIXv7 Ubuntu Ultrix UnixWare Xenix YellowDog aLinux   31170 pages apropos Keyword Search (all sections) Output format html ascii pdf view pdf save postscript

Sys::Virt::DomainSnapsUser3Contributed Perl DocumeSys::Virt::DomainSnapshot(3)

NAME
       Sys::Virt::DomainSnapshot - Represent & manage a libvirt guest domain

DESCRIPTION
       The "Sys::Virt::DomainSnapshot" module represents a guest domain
       managed by the virtual machine monitor.

METHODS
       my $xml = $dom->get_xml_description()
	   Returns an XML document containing a complete description of the
	   domain's configuration

       $dom->delete()
	   Deletes this snapshot object & its datra

       $dom->revert_to()
	   Revert the domain to the state associated with this snapshot

CONSTANTS
   SNAPSHOT CREATION
       The following constants are useful when creating snapshots

       Sys::Virt::DomainSnapshot::CREATE_CURRENT
	   Set the defined snapshot to be the current snapshot

       Sys::Virt::DomainSnapshot::CREATE_DISK_ONLY
	   Only snapshot the disk, not the memory state

       Sys::Virt::DomainSnapshot::CREATE_HALT
	   Stop the guest after creating the snapshot

       Sys::Virt::DomainSnapshot::CREATE_NO_METADATA
	   Do not save any metadata for the snapshot

       Sys::Virt::DomainSnapshot::CREATE_REDEFINE
	   Replace/set the metadata with the snapshot

   SNAPSHOT DELETION
       The following constants are useful when deleting snapshots

       Sys::Virt::DomainSnapshot::DELETE_CHILDREN
	   Recursively delete any child snapshots

       Sys::Virt::DomainSnapshot::DELETE_CHILDREN_ONLY
	   Only delete the child snapshots

       Sys::Virt::DomainSnapshot::DELETE_METADATA_ONLY
	   Only delete the snapshot metadata

   SNAPSHOT LIST
       The following constants are useful when listing snapshots

       Sys::Virt::DomainSnapshot::LIST_METADATA
	   Only list snapshots which have metadata

       Sys::Virt::DomainSnapshot::LIST_ROOTS
	   Only list snapshots which are root nodes in the tree

   SNAPSHOT REVERT
       The following constants are useful when reverting snapshots

       Sys::Virt::DomainSnapshot::REVERT_PAUSED
	   Leave the guest CPUs paused after reverting to the snapshot state

       Sys::Virt::DomainSnapshot::REVERT_RUNNING
	   Start the guest CPUs after reverting to the snapshot state

AUTHORS
       Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2006 Red Hat Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Daniel P. Berrange

LICENSE
       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the terms of either the GNU General Public License as published
       by the Free Software Foundation (either version 2 of the License, or at
       your option any later version), or, the Artistic License, as specified
       in the Perl README file.

SEE ALSO
       Sys::Virt, Sys::Virt::Error, "http://libvirt.org"

perl v5.14.1			  2011-09-28	  Sys::Virt::DomainSnapshot(3)

Vote for polarhome