<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>I would suggest the following : 1. Pause the virtual machine ( with virsh for example ) 2. Take a snapshot of the logical volume. 3. Unpause the virtual machine 4. Convert the snaposhot ot qcow2. I'm doing something similar with a python script. <hr id="zwchr">From: "Tapas Mishra" <mightydreams@gmail.com> To: "Ubuntu Server Team" <ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com> Sent: Monday, January 3, 2011 12:03:31 PM Subject: converting lvm based Virtual Machine to qcow image. A long time back I had asked as how to back up OS running on KVM in an LVM setup. Here are the excerpts from the message "One way to take a backup is to convert the LVM volumes to compressed qcow2 images, like this: # qemu-img convert -c -f raw -O qcow2 /dev/nintendo/lvm1 /backup/lvm1.img" I would like to know do I need to shut down the VM to be able to use the above command. -- http://mightydreams.blogspot.com -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam -- <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"> Nikolai K. Bochev System Administrator </div></body></html>