RE: snapshots in kvm

2013-08-14 Thread Edison Su
> -Original Message- > From: Marty Sweet [mailto:msweet@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:47 AM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: snapshots in kvm > > Hi Sanjeev, > > As I understand it from a cloudstack prospective it will wor

Re: snapshots in kvm

2013-08-14 Thread Marty Sweet
It does currently enforce 1 volume at a time, although I have noticed some buggy behaviour with the feature, for example queuing the next volume but never doing it, I haven't debugged these issues though. Marty On Wednesday, August 14, 2013, Nitin Mehta wrote: > With the current implementation o

Re: snapshots in kvm

2013-08-14 Thread Nitin Mehta
With the current implementation of snapshots for kvm I think its a bug. It should be creating snapshot of only 1 volume belonging to a vm at a time On 14/08/13 5:10 PM, "Sanjeev Neelarapu" wrote: >Hi, > >This regarding snapshot process in KVM. Does libvirt allow creating >snapshots on two disks

Re: snapshots in kvm

2013-08-14 Thread Marty Sweet
Hi Sanjeev, As I understand it from a cloudstack prospective it will work per disk. This error is returned because the KVM snapshot command (of which i can't remember the name of at this time), takes control of the VM state because the VM is paused while part of the copy is taking place. It may b

snapshots in kvm

2013-08-14 Thread Sanjeev Neelarapu
Hi, This regarding snapshot process in KVM. Does libvirt allow creating snapshots on two disks of a vm at the same time? I have deployed a vm with root and data disk. Configured recurring snapshot policies on both root disk and data disk and snapshot process triggered on both the disks with dif