Re: [libvirt-users] Freeze Windows Guests For Consistent Storage Snapshots

2015-06-08 Thread Payes Anand
Eric Blake writes: > > On 12/10/2014 11:40 PM, Payes Anand wrote: > > Hi, > > Is it possible to freeze windows guests for a consistent storage level > > snapshot. > > Yes, if you install qemu-guest-agent in the guest, and wire up your > libvirt XML to have

[libvirt-users] Freeze Windows Guests For Consistent Storage Snapshots

2014-12-10 Thread Payes Anand
Hi, Is it possible to freeze windows guests for a consistent storage level snapshot. I am using openstack icehouse on centos 6.6 Hypervisor: KVM Libvirt: 0.10.2 Qemu: 0.10.2 Guest OS: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 I was able to freeze Centos guests by issuing the command: virsh qemu-agent-co

Re: [libvirt-users] Live Disk Snapshot Not Supported

2014-11-25 Thread Payes Anand
Using library: libvirt 1.2.10 Using API: QEMU 1.2.10 Running hypervisor: QEMU 2.0.0 On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/23/2014 04:15 AM, Payes Anand wrote: > > # virsh snapshot-create-as small snap1 --disk-only --atomic > > error: Operation not supported: liv

[libvirt-users] Live Disk Snapshot Not Supported

2014-11-23 Thread Payes Anand
# virsh snapshot-create-as small snap1 --disk-only --atomic error: Operation not supported: live disk snapshot not supported with this QEMU binary OS used: CentOS 7 #virsh version Compiled against library: libvirt 1.1.1 Using library: libvirt 1.1.1 Using API: QEMU 1.1.1 Running hypervisor: QEMU 1.5

Re: [libvirt-users] some problem with snapshot by libvirt

2014-11-21 Thread Payes Anand
Eric Blake writes: > > On 05/27/2012 06:39 PM, xingxing gao wrote: > > Hi,all,i am using libvirt to manage my vm,in these days i am testing > > the libvirt snapshot ,but meet some problem: > > > > the snapshot was created from this command: > > snapshot-create-as win7--disk-only --diskspec >

Re: [libvirt-users] Problem with the use of domfsfreeze mountpoint option

2014-11-17 Thread Payes Anand
As stated in the below link from libvirt-list, https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-May/msg00033.html > OpenStack cinder provides these storages' snapshot feature, but it cannot > quiesce the guest filesystems automatically for now. > > This patchset adds virDomainFSFreeze()/virDomain

[libvirt-users] Suspend Domain (virsh suspend) or Freeze Filesystems (virsh domfsfreze) to take Snapshot of ISCSI volume

2014-11-16 Thread Payes Anand
Hi everybody, I am trying to take snapshot of a particular iscsi disk mounted inside the guest operating system. I have created my own snapshot feature for that. Could someone please suggest the better choice for stopping read/write operations on disk out of the two to take snapshots, or if you h

Re: [libvirt-users] Problem with the use of domfsfreeze mountpoint option

2014-11-13 Thread Payes Anand
Thanks a lot for your replies. They were very useful in debugging the issues that i was facing. I am using qemu 1.5 in both the host and the guest. While using libvirt 1.2.5, all the file systems on the domain were freezing. I have finally got an error message. After upgrading libvirt to 1.2.10, t

[libvirt-users] Problem with the use of domfsfreeze mountpoint option

2014-11-11 Thread Payes Anand
Hi everybody, I am having a problem with the use of domfsfreeze command. It is freezing all the filesystems present on the domain, instead of freezing just the mountpoints provided. I am issuing the command-- # virsh domfsfreeze --mountpoint Output was-- Froze 3 filesystem(s) I want to fr