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Hey When I want to take a snapshot for a Domain by using virDomainSnapshotCreateXML. The Error as below happen: libvir: QEMU error : Requested operation is not valid: Disk '/var/lib/libvirt/images/fedora-qcow.qcow2' does not support snapshotting The snapshot Configuration is : <domainsnapshot> <description>Snapshot of OS install and updates</description>

2015-05-28 10:40 GMT+03:00 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>: > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:33:48AM +0300, NoxDaFox wrote: > > To create the snapshots I'm using the libvirt command snapshotCreateXML > > with no flag set. Does libvirt support consistent snapshotting or shall I > > rely on QEMU backup new feature only? > > According to:

Thanks for your answer, I am trying to make a snapshot of whole virtual machine (disk, CPU state, memory). But I need to make this snapshot in matter of seconds. I have already try to create snapshot of disk, which is not problem. I use qcow2 format, and create new disk image using original disk image as backing file. But still I am not able to assign state of vm with new disk. I have found

Hello everyone, I am trying to find a way to store an internal disk snapshot and supposed to restore later. Here is the problems I met: 1) when I use SnapshotCreateXML() to create a disk_only snapshot while the domain is inactive, there is an error happened: disk snapshot of inactive domains not implemented yet. I am wondering is there and way I can save the disk_only

2015-05-28 10:10 GMT+03:00 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>: > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 09:48:41AM +0300, NoxDaFox wrote: > > 2015-05-27 15:21 GMT+03:00 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>: > > > > > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 09:38:38AM +0300, NoxDaFox wrote: > > > > * RuntimeError: file receive cancelled by daemon - On r = > > >

Hello Thanks heaps for your suggestions. responses inline. On 10 Apr 2014, at 10:34 pm, Eric Blake <eblake@rehost1hat.com> wrote: > > [ … ] > [Can you convince your mailer to wrap long lines? It makes it easier > for other readers] I’ll try and keep the lines short. I don’t see any obvious setting to change the wrap. >> >> Using RHEL 6.4 and libvirt version

Hi * Trying to get drive-backup command, getting permission denied. :( sudo virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp my-instance --cmd drive_backup drive-virtio-disk0 /tmp/foo.vda.img Looks like apparmor issue. What can I modify to make this work ? * Couple of other questions drive-backup : * The doc seems to claim that it gives a point in time copy of

Hi Libvirt, Does libvirt-python currently support the creation of external snapshots? I ran domain.snapshotCreateXML(xml) where xml is <domainsnapshot> <name>snap1</name> <description>Snapshot of OS install and updates</description> <disks> <disk name='vda'> <source

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 02:08:41PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/14/2014 11:52 AM, Jd wrote: > > Hi > > > > * Trying to get drive-backup command, getting permission denied. :( > > > > sudo virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp my-instance --cmd > > drive_backup drive-virtio-disk0 /tmp/foo.vda.img > > Ouch. qemu-monitor-command is explicitly

Hello, I have a running transient domain with a storage volume that utilizes a backing file (both QCOW2 format). I'd like to capture the disk and memory state of the domain preferably to external file(s) (which I understand is an 'external checkpoint'), so that other independent domains can be instantiated and effectively "resumed" from this point-in-time profile. My

Hi, What's the difference between QEMU snapshot and libvirt snapshot? # qemu-img create -f qcow2 disk.img 512 Formatting 'disk.img', fmt=qcow2 size=512 encryption=off cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off # qemu-img info disk.img image: disk.img file format: qcow2 virtual size: 512 (512 bytes) disk size: 136K cluster_size: 65536 Format specific information: compat: 1.1 lazy

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote: > On 08/06/2014 10:06 AM, Yuanzhen Gu wrote: > > yes, I got your point, thanks very much Eric. > > not entirely, because you still top-posted. > > got it entirely this time, not top-posted. > > > > If I want to take a distributed snapshot, which need pause all the VMs > and >

yes, I got your point, thanks very much Eric. If I want to take a distributed snapshot, which need pause all the VMs and then take snapshot, how can I control the pause for all the VMs? Is there only way that I turn to freeze/thaw functions? and freeze/thaw only for file systems, not for the whole guest, am I right? Thanks a lot! Best, Yuanzhen On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Eric Blake

Versions -------- (Libvirt locally built from a recent git commit -ec7b922): $ rpm -q libvirt-daemon-kvm qemu-system-x86 libvirt-daemon-kvm-1.2.6-1.fc20.x86_64 qemu-system-x86-2.0.0-1.fc21.x86_64 Test ---- [All images are qcow2 files.] We have this simple chain: base <- snap1 Let's quickly examine the contents of 'base' and 'snap1' images:

Hi all, I guess my question is stupid and has been asked a thousand times but i was wondering if it's possible to do the following things: - Cloning of a running virtual machine (hot copy) - Migrate a physical server to a virtual one. I googled a bit and am not able to find the answers. Thanks. Regards, Sam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Blake" <eblake@redhat.com> To: "Andrew Martin" > <amartin@xes-inc.com>, libvirt-users@redhat.com Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 > 5:44:54 PM Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] Live snapshots of a single block > device > > On 05/22/2014 04:31 PM, Andrew Martin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > [Can you

Hi all, Where could I find the memory dump and disk snapshots for vm after command "virsh snapshot-create <some_running_vm>"? Thanks in advance. I found the xml files in /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/snapshot/, but hava no idea about the raw snapshot file. Thanks, Lei -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Lentes, Bernd [mailto:bernd.lentes@helmholtz-muenchen.de] > Verzonden: donderdag 3 december 2015 13:54 > Aan: libvirt-ML > CC: Dominique Ramaekers > Onderwerp: RE: snapshot of running vm's > > > ... > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > i have inserted: > > > > > > <channel

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