Re: [libvirt-users] some problem with snapshot by libvirt

Eric Blake
Fri, 21 Nov 2014 21:51:47 -0000

On 11/21/2014 12:56 PM, Payes Anand wrote:
>> Yep.  You've run into a case where I haven't yet been able to
code
>> things.

>>
>> Help in writing the patches to improve the functionality would be
welcome.
>>
>
> Has the issue ( revert to external disk snapshot ) been solved in later
> versions of libvirt?

As of the latest 1.2.10 release, we are still awaiting someone to write
patches for reverting to external snapshots.

> If not is there any alternate.

You can do things manually, via qemu-img and editing domain xml.

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