Re: [libvirt-users] Snapshots - can't take a snapshot with running VM

2010-06-17 Thread Julian Robbins
On 17/06/10 11:40, Julian Robbins wrote: On 15/06/10 17:53, Julian Robbins wrote: I'm using vers 1.84 of QEMU/Kvm from dnjl's PPA for Lucid. After trying again, I can no longer get snapshots to work whilst vm guest in running. I have disabled apparmor so that it is only in '

Re: [libvirt-users] Snapshots - can't take a snapshot with running VM

2010-06-17 Thread Julian Robbins
On 15/06/10 17:53, Julian Robbins wrote: > Can I really only create snapshots of a vm when it isnt running ? No, you should be able to take a snapshot both while it is running and while it is off. However, they use different mechanisms so there could be a bug in the online version. W

[libvirt-users] cannot acquire state change lock

2010-06-17 Thread Julian Robbins
Hi I keep getting libvirtError: Timed out during operation: cannot acquire state change lock errors - what does this mean exactly ? Using Ubuntu 64 bit 10.04 host and guest -- Kind regards Julian Robbins ___ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt

[libvirt-users] howto search this mailing list archive?

2010-06-16 Thread Julian Robbins
Another quickie I've long and hard (honest !), but can't find a way to search this ml's archives. How do you do this ? -- Kind regards Julian Robbins ___ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/m

[libvirt-users] apparmor and kvm/libvirt

2010-06-16 Thread Julian Robbins
particularly important to be used in this case. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on both host and guest 64 bit. -- Kind regards Julian Robbins ___ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users

Re: [libvirt-users] Snapshots - can't take a snapshot with running VM

2010-06-15 Thread Julian Robbins
> Can I really only create snapshots of a vm when it isnt running ? No, you should be able to take a snapshot both while it is running and while it is off. However, they use different mechanisms so there could be a bug in the online version. What version of qemu/kvm are you running? Also, do

[libvirt-users] Snapshots - can't take a snapshot with running VM

2010-06-15 Thread Julian Robbins
Hi I'm quite new to KVM/libvirt0 so hope you can help I'm using Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 and libvirt0 0.8.1 When I try a :- snapshot create vm_name I get an error, ie 'error -5 while writing' Googling doesnt bring anything up. Taking snapshots of a vm when it isnt running works fine. Can I real