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>
<name>snapshot01</name>
<description>Snapshot of OS install and updates</description>
<disks>
<disk name='vda' snapshot='external'>
<source file='/data10/snapshot'/>
</disk>
</disks>
</domainsnapshot>
How can I use the API or could I use "snapshot-create" ?
I try "virsh snapshot-create domain_name snapshot.xml", but I report an error:
error: unsupported configuration: disk 'vda' must use snapshot mode 'internal'.
What's the probem? I feel crazy now.
Could someone give me a sucessfule example?
At 2013-06-25 16:46:32,"cmcc.dylan" <dx10ye...@126.com> wrote:
Thanks for you reply!
Firstly, I'm very sorry I forgot introduce the scenarios in my experiments.
Supposing a case, I have a virtual machine with two disks. One is mounted as a
root partition and the other is data partition and the second disk is an iscsi
lun, that is to say, not a local disk or image. Now the result wanted is that
creating a snapshot for the root disk but not for the data disk when executing
"virsh snapshot-create-as" command. Actually, it meet an error:
error:unsuported configuration: source for disk 'vdc' is not a regular
file; refusing to generate external snapshot name.
The xml configuration of this virtual machine as follows:
<disk type='block' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw' />
<source dev='/dev/sdm1' > // sdm1 is a remote scsi
lun and mounted at the local host
<target dev='vdc' bus='virtio' />
</disk>
Given above problem, I want to only create the snapshot of local disk.
在 2013-06-24 23:22:47，"vonNieda, Adam (USMS)" <adam.vonni...@usdoj.gov> 写道：
I think what you’re looking for is LVM snapshots. The whole purpose of
taking VM snapshots is to have a consistent image of the machine as a whole.
There’s lots of articles out there on LVM snapshots, here’s one.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshots_backup.html
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On Behalf Of cmcc.dylan
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 11:13 AM
To:libvirt-users@redhat.com
Subject: [libvirt-users] snapshot-create-as for a single disk not all disks
Hi everyone!
Is there any way to create snaphot for a single disk of a virtual machine.
As I konw, "virsh snapshot-create-as domain_name snapshot_name --disk-only"
traverses all block devices to create snapshot. However I don't want to create
snapshot except for root partition.
The version of qemu and libvirt I used is as follows:
qemu-1.4.2 and libvrit-0.10.2
I meet an error when I delete the snapshot which is created by
"snapshot-create-as" command. whether or not qemu(1.4.2) and libvirt(0.10.2)
don't support the function currently.
Look forward to your help!
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