On 05/20/14 16:28, Eric Blake wrote:
On 05/20/2014 07:36 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> When doing an external checkpoint of a VM with no disk selected we'd
> return failure but not set error code. This was a result of ret not
> being set to 0 during walking of the disk array.
>
> Rework early failure checking to avoid the problem.
>
> Fixes the following symptom (or without --diskspec for diskless VMs)
>
> $ virsh snapshot-create-as snapshot-test --memspec /tmp/asdf --diskspec
hda,snapshot=no
> error: An error occurred, but the cause is unknown
> ---
Technically, this is equivalent to a 'virsh save'. Would it be better
to avoid an error altogether and allow the operation as a longhand
spelling of the same action?
virsh save kills the VM after it finishes. This allows to preserve the
VM running and also allows snapshots of diskless VMs.
Peter