[libvirt-users] Guest Agent and API Relationship

2016-08-12 Thread David Ashley
All - I have looked everywhere I can think of (except the C code) to see if I can find the relationship of an API to the guest agent. What I want to know is whether or not a given API has a dependency on the guest agent being available. I know that some of the APIs now have such a dependency

[libvirt-users] Attaching disks with external snapshots

2016-08-12 Thread Erlon Cruz
Hi folks, I'm trying to to attach a disk to an instance using libvirt. The problem is, this disk has external snapshots. The process tried was: 1 - Attach a disk in the domain: *virsh# attach-device instance-0006 /tmp/disk.xml[1] --live* 2 - Snapshot the disk[2]: *virsh# snap

Re: [libvirt-users] QEMU IMG vs Libvirt block commit

2016-08-12 Thread Erlon Cruz
Just following up this to who, somehow hit this problem in the future... What happens here is that when libvirt create the snapshots, it held the disk/snapshots information in the domain XML. After I detach the volume, and adding it again, Nova is not adding it the same way it was before detaching,