Re: What's wrong with internal VM snapshots?

Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com&gt; writes: > On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 14:14:25 +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote: > >> We have been asked to prefer the "external" over the "internal" >> snapshot format, at least on RHEL. I haven't yet figured out why, and >> consequently I am struggling with deciding how hard the Cockpit UI >> should push people towards external snapshots. > > This is because development preferentially went into external > snapshots. This unfortunately also meant that internal snapshots were > neglected. I see, thanks! So, would it be fair to say that internal snapshots are deprecated by upstream libvirt itself (since 0.10), not just in RHEL?

>> [...] That sort of thing would help me a lot to figure out what >> Cockpit should be doing on platforms other than RHEL. > > I don't think having different behaviour is a good idea. Yes, it's also less work. :) >> And how well (or how soon) can external snapshots be expected to work? > > Very technically libvirt already expects external snapshots to work. > Said that it's a relatively recent implementation so there may be bugs. > [...] > Please do report them including steps how you managed to break stuff. Will do! To be fair, most of my troubles were probably caused by using external snapshots wrong (such as using --diskspec sda,source=blah without knowing what I was doing and creating broken snapshots that way), and Cockpit will of course prevent people from making those mistakes.