similar to: kvm & external snapshots

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

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 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

Dear all, I have written a little R program to convert images. See below. Within the loop over j (the filenames) memory consumption grows constantly. rm( ... ) inside the loop did not help. Memory does not grow if I remove the writeBin statements between the two #-------- marks. But obviously this is not solution I want... Thanks for any advice. Manfred Baumstark P.S. As I'm new to R:

----- 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, 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

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

On my IRIX system (SGI compilers, gcc not installed) ./configure runs fine, but there is a problem with make (output below) that can be solved by changing one line in src/modules/lapack/Makefile. If this line is changed, make runs without problems. 'make check' still has a problem (sh[14]: /usr/sbin/perl: arg list too long), but I assume this is "cosmetic". Manfred -----------

what the difference between ` virsh save ` and `virsh snapshot`? are they all used for backup for vm?have any details articles to introduce vm bakcup or image bakcup with libvirt? thanks in advance. liuzhijun -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/attachments/20121112/931d27a2/attachment.htm>

> >> --live only makes sense when mixed with memory snapshots (with --memspec); > >> but > >> as you are doing a --disk-only snapshot, it doesn't help (I'm not sure if > >> it > >> will error out as mutually exclusive or just be silently ignored, > >> without reading the code). > > I'm using this code in a script for creating

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

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 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

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

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

I'm trying to build R-1.5.0 on an SGI. I downloaded the tar file just a couple of hours ago. These are the various variables I set before configuring, and the arguments to configure I'm using: export R_PAPERSIZE=letter CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/dfs/src/readline export LDFLAGS='-L/usr/common/lib -L/usr/lib32 -L/usr/dfs/src/readline' export CONFIG_SHELL=/v/bin/sh SHELL=/v/bin/sh ./configure

On 05/22/2014 04:31 PM, Andrew Martin wrote: > Hello, > [Can you convince your mailer to wrap long lines?] > 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 Any reason you aren't upgrading to newer versions? Although these seem sufficient for what you are trying. > multiple disks, I'd

Dear all, Please let me start by indicating that I am not from a technical background, so please be gentle and patient with me. I am trying to get a snapshot from my virtual machines (vm) and the following command works for all of them bar one: # virsh snapshot-create-as --quiesce --no-metadata --domain myvm myvm-state --diskspec vda,file=overlay.qcow2 --disk-only --atomic The only exception is

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