When we are deleting external snapshot that is not active we only need to delete overlay disk image of the parent snapshot. This works correctly even if parent snapshot is external and active as it will have another overlay created when user reverted to that snapshot. In case the parent snapshot is internal there are no overlay disk images created as everything is stored internally within the disk image. In this case we would delete the actual disk image storing internal snapshots and most likely the original disk image as well resulting in data loss once the VM is shutoff. Fixes: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/734 Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c b/src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c index 18b2e478f6..80cd54bf33 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c @@ -3144,6 +3144,8 @@ qemuSnapshotDeleteExternalPrepareData(virDomainObj *vm, return -1; } + data->parentSnap = qemuSnapshotFindParentSnapForDisk(snap, data->snapDisk); + if (data->merge) { virStorageSource *snapDiskSrc = NULL; @@ -3185,8 +3187,6 @@ qemuSnapshotDeleteExternalPrepareData(virDomainObj *vm, qemuSnapshotGetDisksWithBackingStore(vm, snap, data); } - data->parentSnap = qemuSnapshotFindParentSnapForDisk(snap, data->snapDisk); - if (data->parentSnap && !virDomainSnapshotIsExternal(data->parentSnap)) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", _("deleting external snapshot that has internal snapshot as parent not supported")); @@ -3642,10 +3642,12 @@ qemuSnapshotDiscardExternal(virDomainObj *vm, if (!data->job) goto error; } else { - if (virStorageSourceInit(data->parentDomDisk->src) < 0 || - virStorageSourceUnlink(data->parentDomDisk->src) < 0) { - VIR_WARN("Failed to remove snapshot image '%s'", - data->snapDisk->name); + if (data->parentSnap && virDomainSnapshotIsExternal(data->parentSnap)) { + if (virStorageSourceInit(data->parentDomDisk->src) < 0 || + virStorageSourceUnlink(data->parentDomDisk->src) < 0) { + VIR_WARN("Failed to remove snapshot image '%s'", + data->snapDisk->name); + } } } } -- 2.47.1