How to create the snapshots.img from console?

Question

When creating a new AVD through the AVD manager it is possible to enable the snapshot feature by simply checking the right option in the "Create new AVD" window.

After creating the AVD you can find a file named snapshots.img under <user-home>/.android/avd/<avd-name>/. It is the snapshot storage file for the new AVD.

Does anybody know how to obtain the same result by using the command line tools?

I already tried creating a new AVD by using the android create avd command as well as setting the option snapshot.present=true in the AVD config.ini, but no snapshot storage is created.

Answer 1

I finally managed to create the snapshot storage file.

The documentation to consider is the QEMU one. In particular, under Linux you can use the qemu-img tool (documentation here).

I created the snapshots.img file by using this command:

qemu-img create -f qcow2 snapshots.img 500M

Answer 2

You can also do android create avd --snapshot which will create the snapshots.img file for you and set the snapshot.present=true flag.