Hi all,
i am trying (test) to save / restore a state of a winxp virtual machine.
Perhaps i am missing that i can not restore save image to LVM partition.
"error: Failed to read file '/root/winxp.save': Value too large for
defined data type"
Below are my settings
libvirt 0.9.13
qemu-kvm 1.1.1
# virsh
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
Type: 'help' for help with commands
'quit' to quit
virsh # list
Id Name State
----------------------------------------------------
3 winxp running
virsh # save winxp /root/winxp.save
Domain winxp saved to /root/winxp.save
virsh # list
Id Name State
----------------------------------------------------
virsh # list --all
Id Name State
----------------------------------------------------
- winxp shut off
virsh # restore winxp /root/winxp.save
error: Failed to read file '/root/winxp.save': Value too large for
defined data type
# du -h /root/winxp.save
278M /root/winxp.save
# virsh dumpxml winxp | more
<domain type='kvm'>
<name>winxp</name>
<uuid>b528a71f-aca1-5024-c460-892100b97ef2</uuid>
<memory unit='KiB'>1597440</memory>
<currentMemory unit='KiB'>1048576</currentMemory>
<vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
<os>
<type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-1.1'>hvm</type>
<boot dev='hd'/>
</os>
--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/vg01/winxp
LV Name winxp
VG Name vg01
LV UUID hrXdl6-oRMC-dl7l-mkad-SSDl-y1hf-1Q1MPp
LV Write Access read/write
LV Creation host, time mywork, 2012-03-16 10:54:08 +0200
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 5.00 GiB
Current LE 1280
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 254:4
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