Working with KVM snapshots
From MyWiki
irsh snapshot-create-as --domain {VM-NAME} --name "{SNAPSHOT-NAME}" virsh list virsh snapshot-list --domain {VM-NAME} # virsh snapshot-create-as --domain freebsd \ --name "5sep2016s0" \ --description "Snapshot before upgrading to FreeBSD 11" \ --live virsh snapshot-info --domain freebsd --snapshotname 5Sep2016_S1 # virsh shutdown --domain freebsd # virsh snapshot-revert --domain freebsd --snapshotname 5Sep2016_S1 --running virsh snapshot-delete --domain freebsd --snapshotname 5Sep2016_S2 How to capture disk state but not vm state Pass the --disk-only as follows: # virsh snapshot-create-as --name "snap01" \ --description "RHEL 7.6 snapshot" \ --disk-only \ --live --domain rhel7-vm2