How to take a snapshot of a running VM with RBD

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The process to create a snapshot

In the guest
sync, then xfs_freeze all filesystems that will be part of the snapshot (this works on different types of filesystems, it just came from xfs originally)

# sync
# xfs_freeze -f /mount/point

Outside the guest, create an rbd snapshot

# rbd sn...

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