I am trying to use virsh's snapshot-create command on a VMWare vm that has multiple disks in its device list, but the command is failing with the error: "Could not create snapshot: FileNotFound - file [pool] filename.vmx". However, this command works if my vm only has one disk in its device list. I am using libvirt 0.9.10, and the storage pool is nfs mounted between the machine that I am running virsh on and the hypervisor. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong or if this is even supported by virsh?

2012/7/18 Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com&gt;: > On 07/18/2012 09:47 AM, Elizabeth Griffith wrote: >> I am trying to use virsh's snapshot-create command on a VMWare vm that has multiple disks in its device list, but the command is failing with the error: >> "Could not create snapshot: FileNotFound - file [pool] filename.vmx". >> However, this command works if my vm only has one disk in its device list. >> I am using libvirt 0.9.10, and the storage pool is nfs mounted between the machine that I am running virsh on and the hypervisor. >> Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong or if this is even supported by virsh? > > virsh supports calling the underlying API; and the underlying API works > for multi-disk VMs in qemu, so that should not be your issue. The real > question is whether the vmware driver in libvirt has been properly wired > up to obey that API on a multi-disk VM. Unfortunately, I don't know the > answer to that, as I don't use vmware myself, but you are welcome to try > and debug and submit a patch if no one else more familiar with the > vmware driver in libvirt steps in. The error about the VMX files is strange. I'll have a look on this issue. Actually, snapshots of multi-volume VMs should just work.