Re: [libvirt-users] internal snapshot question

2016-09-03 Thread Martin Kletzander
On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 06:45:55PM +0800, gunnar.wag...@netcologne.de wrote: tried it (--live wasn't accepted, so I shut the VM down) and produced a snapshot $ sudo virsh snapshot-delete [domain] [sn-id] returns an error though >> error: Failed to delete snapshot [sn-id] >> error: unsupp

Re: [libvirt-users] internal snapshot question

2016-09-03 Thread gunnar . wagner
tried it (--live wasn't accepted, so I shut the VM down) and produced a snapshot $ sudo virsh snapshot-delete [domain] [sn-id] returns an error though >> error: Failed to delete snapshot [sn-id] >> error: unsupported configuration: deletion of 1 external disk snapshots not supported ye

Re: [libvirt-users] internal snapshot question

2016-09-03 Thread vrms
hi Martin, thanks again for the feedback. maybe you have noted that I am not yet all too familiar with those tools. this is now sort of working for me. But I sense that you seem this method to be less then ideal. Reading through the virsh manual it looks like ... $ virsh snapshot-create [d

Re: [libvirt-users] internal snapshot question

2016-09-03 Thread Martin Kletzander
On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 03:07:37PM +0800, v...@netcologne.de wrote: I take an internal snapshot (VM is 'shutdown' when taking it) of a qcow2 image like this: $ qemu-img snapshot -c sn1 [my_image].qcow2 I see that snapshot when asking for: $ qemu-img info [my_image].qcow Firstly, you ar

[libvirt-users] internal snapshot question

2016-09-03 Thread vrms
I take an internal snapshot (VM is 'shutdown' when taking it) of a qcow2 image like this: $ qemu-img snapshot -c sn1 [my_image].qcow2 I see that snapshot when asking for: $ qemu-img info [my_image].qcow but do NOT see it with: $ virsh domblklist [my_domain] is that how it is mea