similar to: External Snapshots vs Core Dump.

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. Currently I am taking a dump of the memory with the virsh dump ‘live’ flag and taking the snapshot with the memory file pointed to /dev/null, without even pausing the guest. I don’t have a use case to restore from the snapshot snapshot so hopefully this approach will not cause any issue. On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 5:23 PM, Peter Krempa

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 20:08:13 +0530, Tanmoy Sinha wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to get a clear picture on external snapshots memory dump ( > i.e. system-checkpoint) vs dumping the memory of the guest. I have created > external snapshots which produces a disk file and a memory file. I am not > able to use this memory file in any memory analysis tools, for instance >

Hi, I am currently facing an issue with libvirt w.r.t a guest's state and reason code. Precisely following are steps: 1. I have a running guest named *linux-test *on KVM 2. I do a * $> virsh save linux-test linux-saved.dat* 3. At this point * $> virsh domstate --reason linux-test *shows *shutoff(saved)* 4. I restarted the libvirtd daemon * $>systemctl

Hi All, I am unable to figure out the issue here, when I try to create a filesystem (ext4) on a virtual disk using qemu-nbd. This happens intermittently. Following is the sequence of commands:- $> qemu-img create -f qcow2 test.qcow2 30G $> qemu-nbd --connect=/dev/nbd0 test.qcow2 $> *mkfs.ext4 /dev/nbd0* * mkfs.ext4: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition specified, or*

I am trying that out. Debian 9 (stretch) backports still doesn't have 4.16 kernel. So I building the kernel from the source. Will keep you posted. On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 at 13:00 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > [Adding Paolo and Vitaly, but FYI only as the bug seems to have an > upstream fix already.] > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 09:13:45AM +0300, Roman Kagan

Yes it works if I use force_tcg env variable On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 at 4:37 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 05:35:38PM +0000, Tanmoy Sinha wrote: > > Thanks. Reading the defect and the associated thread in > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1661386, I enabled performance > > counters in VMWare guest settings. Now the

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

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:

Thanks. Reading the defect and the associated thread in https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1661386, I enabled performance counters in VMWare guest settings. Now the kvm assertion `ret == cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' is gone. But the qemu/kvm hangs after printing "SeaBIOS (version 1.10.2-1)" I presume this too is a qemu/kvm issue for vmware platforms. Is there any existing issue

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 03:08:16PM +0000, Tanmoy Sinha wrote: > Even though force_tcg works, I intend not to run it on emulation. Is there > way I can run it over kvm? The other observation is, without force_tcg if I > use the machine type as *pc-i440fx-2.**1*,accel=kvm it works fine. The > default machine type for my host *pc-i440fx-2.8, *which seems to crib. I don't know, but

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

I have an oVirt engine node that currently runs the system on a qcow2 based virtual disk, and an NFS export volume on RAW. I'd like to take a snapshot before a somewhat risky upgrade of oVirt and can't with the raw image attached. Looking at the documentation for the snapshot XML, I created this XML file for the snapshot <domainsnapshot> <name>20120802</name>

I am using a debian 9 guest, hosted on a ESXi platform with nested virtualisation enabled. On this debian 9 guest when I run libguesfs-test-tool, it fails with an error: "qemu-system-x86_64: /build/qemu-DqynNa/qemu-2.8+dfsg/target-i386/kvm.c:1805: kvm_put_msrs: Assertion `ret == cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' failed." Instead when I use a wrapper script and hook it with the env

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 there, i am trying to understand something that bothering me for some time now. A running domain has two things that someone needs to take backup. So there is the disk and the state. Using snapshots as checkpoint someone can take the disk snapshot but i cant understand how to "transfer" the saved state from "backup ed" disk. Reading through Kashyap's and Eric's

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>

On standard Fedora 18 I was attempting blockcommit on a *live* VM, libvirt said it was not supported, so I tried fedora-virt-preview as recommended. We found a problem with qemu 1.4, there seems to be an acknowledged bug, a missing library. On a different system we loaded Fedora 18, and then pulled qemu (1.3) and libvirt (1.0.2) from rawhide. I tried blockcommit with domain shut down, it said

All, Using Centos 6.4 with provided libvirt: [root@node1 ~]# rpm -q libvirt libvirt-1.0.1-2.el6.x86_64 Assume a VM with one or more live snapshots. In virsh the VM snapshots can be listed. With virsh: - Stop and undefine this VM. - Then define (and start) this VM. The new VM does not have the list of snapshots. Is there a way with virsh to rebuild the metadata such that

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