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Hi all, I was trying to take live snapshot of VMs, but I got the following error: [root@localhost ~]# virsh snapshot-create-as 1 test desc --live --memspec file=mem.bak,snapshot=external --diskspec vda,snapshot=external,file=/root/root.bak.qcow2 error: Operation not supported: live disk snapshot not supported with this QEMU binary I upgraded my qemu-kvm 0.12.1 to qemu 1.2, the error still

Under libvirt 1.1.1 snapshot support is incomplete. Source: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/I_created_an_external_snapshot,_but_libvirt_won't_let_me_delete_or_revert_to_it In regard to snapshotting (features and stability), I have selected these versions of libvirt and qemu: Libvirt >= 1.2.9 (currently 1.2.12) Qemu = 2.1.0 On Qemu 2.3 and 2.4, I have experienced a regression bug regarding external snapshots. I...

> That's odd, because we have supported --live since 1.0.5. Are you sure > you are running the right libvirtd version and not just reporting the > version of your virsh? You are right. I am running an old libvirtd but with a new virsh. It works now! Thank you so much! Xinyang -- Xinyang GE Department of Computer Science & Engineering The Pennsylvania State University

...of support. For now, you'll have to do the revert by manual use of qemu-img and editing of a libvirt <domain> XML; more details can be found on this wiki page (still in a bit of disarray, so feel free to edit it for clarity according to what works for you): http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/I_created_an_external_snapshot%2C_but_libvirt_won%27t_let_me_delete_or_revert_to_it -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:23:37 -0700 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote: > On 12/03/2013 12:37 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > > > A pity. Thin provisioning would be (as I see it) the first step to > > whole-VM snapshots as found in systems like VMWare ESX. I'd love to > > be able to pull that off using Linux/QEMU/KVM. Or at least be able > > to snapshot a

Hi, i read that virsh uses internally qemu-img (http://serverfault.com/questions/692435/qemu-img-snapshot-on-live-vm). Is that true ? so snapshotting a running vm with virsh or qemu-img is the same ? Bernd -- Bernd Lentes Systemadministration institute of developmental genetics Gebäude 35.34 - Raum 208 HelmholtzZentrum München bernd.lentes@helmholtz-muenchen.de phone: +49 (0)89 3187 1241

Dear Recently,I am interested in libvirt,but I found the libvirt does't support revert and delete the external snapshot which the raw disk based guest.My libvirt and qemu release are both 3.2.0.So I have a question,the community how to solve it,if have any plans about it.Can you tell me more about it?Thank you very much. Best Regards Rambo

Eric Blake <eblake@...> writes: > > On 05/27/2012 06:39 PM, xingxing gao wrote: > > Hi,all,i am using libvirt to manage my vm,in these days i am testing > > the libvirt snapshot ,but meet some problem: > > > > the snapshot was created from this command: > > snapshot-create-as win7 --disk-only --diskspec > > vda,snapshot=external --diskspec

Hello, I am working on my PhD thesis and it would be really helpfull if someone could advise me, whether can Virsh create snapshots of VMs using copy-on-write. Thanks for reply. Juraj

Firstly I'd like to learn where a snapshot is stored once it has been made. I understand that the principle is that when changes occur in the VM, the difference is written to the snapshot, thus recording the differences between the date/time of the snapshot and the current value of the VM. Is that a correct assessment of the process? If that is indeed so, can I take regular snapshots and