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...he problem. I am unaware of a 3rd-party vendor that backports newer releases of libvirt for Ubuntu - is there one you would recommend? Currently, for 14.04 I am using the packages from the Ubuntu repository, and for 12.04 I built newer versions of libvirt myself in this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~xespackages/+archive/ubuntu/virtualization Is there a better way to keep up-to-date with libvirt releases on Ubuntu LTS? > > > > > This presents a problem if the virtual machine host is suddenly powered off > > since a subsequent boot will find the VM using an older image file to boot...

...t contains 2 totally unofficial, handcrafted patches -- very briefly one fixed an issue with environment variable substitution and the the other adds some flexibility to samba_dnsupdate to skip IP addresses If anyone wants to give it a try, all the necessary packages are available from here: ppa:xespackages/samba4 Though if you are not going to use bind, you can omit the "bind9-upstart" package. I'm going to be testing with it before it goes live at my place; however, any feedback -- either on the package itself or on the functionality of the resulting Samba install -- is greatly app...

...ren't upgrading to newer versions? Although these seem > sufficient for what you are trying. The VM hosts I'm using all run Ubuntu 12.04 and I haven't had time to backport and test newer versions yet. I've published the latest versions I built in this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~xespackages/+archive/virtualization The main functionality I need is live snapshotting with snapshot-create-as and blockpull, so I haven't had a good reason to invest time to upgrade. > > The problem you are facing is that the snapshot code MUST have an action for > every disk; and if you don'...

...to newer versions? Although these seem >> sufficient for what you are trying. > The VM hosts I'm using all run Ubuntu 12.04 and I haven't had time to backport > and test newer versions yet. I've published the latest versions I built in this > PPA: https://launchpad.net/~xespackages/+archive/virtualization One of the benefits of newer qemu is the ability to do point-in-time snapshots without altering the backing chain in use by the active disk (well, qemu 2.0 has some improvements, and unreleased qemu 2.1 has even more in the pipeline; and it takes newer qemu to drive some of...

Hello, I am using "virsh snapshot-create-as" to create external snapshots of running VMs using libvirt 1.0.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 and libvirt 1.2.2 on Ubuntu 14.04. This works well for creating the snapshots, but I notice that the on-disk XML file in /etc/libvirt/qemu is not updated with the new disk image file after the snapshot is created. This appears to be very similar to

Hello, I am working on a script to automatically create live snapshots of running VMs using qemu-kvm 1.4.0 and libvirt 1.0.2. If a VM has multiple disks, I'd like to back them up individually with separate calls to snapshot-create-as, so I can more easily manage the disk images. The code I have now is essentially as follows: virsh snapshot-create-as --domain "vmname" --name