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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

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

Hi Kashyap, Thanks for your answer! Unfortunately my use case requires cloning the exact memory state, so I won't be able to use virt-sysprep. But the snapshot command looks like something I could use. Could you suggest how to proceed and create/start a new vm from that snapshot? Thanks, Michael On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com> wrote: > On

Hi, I'm trying to create a snapshot on a specific disk by using diskspec option. However, libvirt/virsh seems to ignore it and takes a snapshot of all disks. Am I using this option incorrectly? In below examples, I'm trying to snapshot only vdb. However even vda is getting snapshotted regardless of diskspec. Is this a known issue? I'm on CentOS 7.1, libvirtd (libvirt) 1.2.8, virsh

hi,all I want to delete the storage pool,but libvirt tell me say: > error: Failed to delete pool virtimages > > error: Requested operation is not valid: storage pool is still active > > > the question is how to make the pool's status to be inactive? thanks liuzhijun -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

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

Hi, My use case involves creating duplicates of saved virtual machines. Tried with virt-manager and with virsh but so far it seems like this case is not supported by these tools. Does anyone know how I could achieve the above? Thanks, Michael

I scripted the creation of snapshots and it works fine. Now I'd like to run the script as non-root. virsh snapshot-create-as --domain hq-live-v01 \      --name snappy \      --diskspec vda,file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/hq-live-v01.snappy,snapshot=external \      --diskspec vdb,file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/hq-live-storage.snappy,snapshot=external \      --disk-only --quiesce --atomic This

Everyone, I am trying to create external snapshots of a kvm guest machine and have not been able to do so. In accordance with : https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/virtualization_deployment_and_administration_guide/sect-troubleshooting-workaround_for_creating_external_snapshots_with_libvirt I have used the command line : snapshot-create-as --diskspec

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 15:48:43 -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > On 3/20/19 1:50 PM, Mircea Husz wrote: > > I scripted the creation of snapshots and it works fine. Now I'd like to run the script as non-root. > > > > virsh snapshot-create-as --domain hq-live-v01 \ > >      --name snappy \ > >      --diskspec

Hi, I have a win10 guest on a fedora32 system and have some questions as I explore using external snapshots as a form of backup in case of a Windows failure (as in, it won't boot or is completely irrecoverable) as well as revision control (to be able to rollback changes after a failed app install, etc). The first hit on Google for external snapshots involves a RHEL7 document that talks

Hi everyone! I use the libvirt(version: 1.2.2) and QEMU(version: 2.2.1) to test qemu snapshot features: I tried virsh blockcommit when VM offline, the virsh blockcommit failed: the error messase as below: error: Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running when I start the VM, the virsh blockcommit work fine! my question is：we need

Hi, dear friend. My guest has two disks, vda and vdb. both are qcow2 local file. When guest running state. I want to take the vda snapshot of guest(just vda, no include vdb). but I met libvirt do snapshot for all disks of guest. About methods for follow: 1、 ``` bash virsh snapshot-create-as 8x0lbzvS --name sys_disk3 --disk-only --diskspec "vda,snapshot=external" ``` ``` result

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 04:37:38PM +0100, Lentes, Bernd wrote: [...] > Hi, > > again thanks for your quick answer. I had a look on > https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit > and i liked it. I'm thinking of upgrading my systems to SLES 12 SP3. > With that i have qemu 2.9.1 and libvirt 3.3.0, so it should work. Yep. > Does this procedure

Hi Kashyap Chamarthy: thank you very much for answer my question: 一： lead to VM filesystem becoming read-only 1： test case it lead to VM filesystem becoming read-only test case as follows: we want to snapshot for VM , to obtain VM incremental data，and use virsh blockcommit，qemu-img commit，qemu-img rebase to shorten snapshot chain. Details are as follows（when VM running state， we perform the

----- 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,I install the libvirt windows version ,now i type "virsh" in cmd env:windows7 (ip:192.168.0.15) the error is : info : libvirt version: 0.8.8 error : vboxLookupVersionInRegistry:401 : Could not parse version number from '%VER%' what's problem.thanks advance!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hello! I have a guest with one qcow2 disk image (vda) and one physical partition (sda) from host. When I'm trying to get snapshot with: virsh snapshot-create-as ..... It fails with message: error: unsupported configuration: source for disk 'sda' is not a regular file; refusing to generate external snapshot name I understand, that it is not possible to make a snapshot of physical

try snapshot-create-as like below: virsh snapshot-create-as vm --disk-only --diskspec "vda,snapshot=external" 2013/6/25 cmcc.dylan <dx10years@126.com> > > Hi, everyone, > I have found the API snapshotCreateXML() can create a snapshot for a > virtual machine, and the xml configuration file - snapshot.xml as folllows: > <domainsnapshot> >

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 hda,snapshot=no but when i tried to revert from the snapshot which created from the above command ,i got error below: virsh # snapshot-revert win7