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Help with external snapshots as backups
by Alex Regan 14 Jul '20

14 Jul '20

Hi, I have a win10 guest on a fedora32 system and have some questions as I explore using external snapshots as a form of backup in case of a Windows failure (as in, it won't boot or is completely irrecoverable) as well as revision control (to be able to rollback changes after a failed app install, etc). The first hit on Google for external snapshots involves a RHEL7 document that talks about how it's not officially supported. The current RHEL8 docs don't include any references to snapshots. The fedora docs I've found are many years old - I'm just not sure if they're still applicable. Where can I find the current docs for fedora32? - If I've already created a live internal snapshot, can I then create an external safely? Are all changes currently being written to this internal snapshot now? - Can external snapshots be used for backup? Perhaps there are predefined steps for doing this that I can follow? This is the procedure I'm currently using. I've made a backup of the original image - can I now just continue to backup the snapshots in the eventuality of a crash, then use this original image backup and the snapshots to restore it? I suppose I would also periodically merge the snapshots back into the a single snapshot to ease the process? # virsh snapshot-create-as --domain dave-win10a win10a-state01 --diskspec vda,file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/vm_snapshots/disk-overlay.qcow2,snapshot=external --memspec file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/vm_snapshots/mem-overlay.qcow2,snapshot=external --atomic Domain snapshot win10a-state01 created # ls -lh vm_snapshots/ total 3.3G -rw------- 1 qemu qemu 196K Jul 11 12:32 disk-overlay.qcow2 -rw------- 1 root root 3.3G Jul 11 12:32 mem-overlay.qcow2 Thanks, Alex

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Emulated TPM devices and snapshots of running VMs
by Milan Zamazal 10 Jul '20

10 Jul '20

Hi, I would like to clarify how to make snapshots of running VMs with emulated TPM devices. As far as I understand QEMU documentation, it's possible to make snapshots of running VMs with TPM, but it's important to retain the state of swtpm. Does libvirt assist with that in any way or is it completely user's responsibility? libvirt pauses the VM internally when making a snapshot, which should be the right moment to copy the swtpm data, but the user doesn't have control over it. Is there a way to make a copy of swtpm data that is guaranteed to be consistent with the snapshot? Thank you, Milan

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Could you please help with questions about the net failover feature
by Yalan Zhang 10 Jul '20

10 Jul '20

Hi laine, I have leave some questions on IRC, but my VPN broken time after time. Please ignore the questions on IRC. In my understanding, the standby and primary hostdev interface may be in different subnet. I'm not sure whether it is correct. Could you please help to explain? Thank you in advance. For example, primary hostdev is connected to vf-pool with <pf='eth0'/>, while the standby is connected to NAT network with " forward dev='eth0'". The standby interface will get ip as 192.168.122.x, but after NAT, it will be in the same subnet of the vf. So after the VF is unplugged, the packet will still broadcast in the same subnet, and the vm will get the packet as the standby share the same mac. Right? Thank you! ------- Best Regards, Yalan Zhang IRC: yalzhang

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Why wireless interface cannot be attached to a Linux host bridge?
by ryotaro kobayashi 08 Jul '20

08 Jul '20

Hello, everyone. I'm from japan and using machine translation, so I apologize if it's hard to read. I am currently trying to build a virtual environment using Ubuntu and kvm. However, I found out from the following page that the virtual machine cannot use the bridge network because I am using a wireless network. https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking I am having trouble with this because my PC is using a wireless LAN. On that page it says "wireless interfaces cannot be attached to a Linux host bridge", I Can you tell me why this is so? Is it a limitation of the NIC driver for the wireless LAN? Or is it a limitation of libvirt? Best regards.

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Testing DKIM signatures
by dberrange＠yahoo.com 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

Please ignore this test message

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Asking for suggestion and questions regarding the workings/internals of Libvirt
by Shashwat shagun 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

I am building a multi-tenant json REST API for managing KVM VMs but don't know if libvirt transactions are going to be fast enough to be invoked directly? or do i need a job queue? Does libvirtd already have a job queue that is used when handling time-consuming tasks like creating domain and such? If yes then what about tasks such as volUpload or download? Shashwat. shashwatshagun2581(a)gmail.com

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Re: image of OS X how to boot
by Jerry Geis 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

Thanks Marc - I'll play. Jerry

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Re: image of OS X how to boot
by Jerry Geis 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

Thanks - but I dont see scripts for Yosemite - which to use ? Jerry

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Re: image of OS X how to boot
by Jerry Geis 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

Thanks Marc - my OSX is still Yosemite. I dont see that in these files ? Is support for that available ? Jerry

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no/empty NUMA cells on domain XML
by Polina Agranat 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

Hi , I'm looking for a possibility to simulate a VM (to be used as a host) reporting no or empty NUMA <cells> in 'virsh capabilities'. 'virsh capabilities' usually reports single NUMA in the VMs, like <numa> <cell id='0' cpus='0-63' memory='16777216' unit='KiB'/> </numa> I appreciate if someone could advise Thank you Polina

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