Hello Eric, hello List, As QEMU stores the snapshot data inside the qcow2 files, modifing them directly might bring libvirts snapshot data out-of-sync. In my case a user replaced a qcow2 with a new file re-using the old name. libvirt still thinks that the snapshots are valid, while in reality the data is missing: foo /var/lib/libvirt/images/snap-test.qcow2) status unexpected: exit status 1 What would fix this scenario would be a validation mechanism within libvirt, which walks all snapshots and checks, if each referenced qcow2 file actually has the required snaphot data and mark the snapshot as invalid otherwise. This would require an addition to the xml data to add such a flag. Or I could tell my users again not to re-use names still used by older snapshots, but that doesn't work as you see ;-) Comments? Sincerely Philipp -- Philipp Hahn Open Source Software Engineer hahn(a)univention.de Univention GmbH be open. fon: +49 421 22 232- 0 Mary-Somerville-Str.1 D-28359 Bremen fax: +49 421 22 232-99 http://www.univention.de/