Re: [libvirt-users] virsh snapshot

On 08/20/2014 06:34 PM, Adam King wrote: [Can you convince your mailer to wrap long lines?] night using /usr/bin/virsh snapshot-create APP03 . This creates an internal snapshot, where the state of the snapshot is stored in the same qcow2 file as the current state. did virsh dumpxml APP03 > APP03.xml, edited the name to APP01 and changed the ID. I then did virsh define APP03.xml to get APP01. Yes, this achieves the goal of defining a new domain name that inherits from the old state. 80G inside the virtual machine), I am assuming this is the snapshots tagged onto the virtual hard disk? Most likely, yes. 'qemu-img info /path/to/file' will give you a better picture on all the snapshots stored in there. removed old snapshots from APP03 using virsh snapshot-delete APP03 '<snapshotidnumber> If it were still in the old APP03 domain, then 'virsh snapshot-delete APP03 $name', where 'virsh snapshot-list APP03' will show you the list of names. But given that you renamed to APP01, libvirt probably is unaware of the snapshots; so you'll have to do more legwork. You can use qemu-img snapshot -d to delete the snapshots yourself, or you can use 'virsh snapshot-create[-as] --redefine ...' to temporarily create a snapshot with the right name so that you can then do 'virsh snapshot-delete' (probably more effort than it's worth, so I'd stick with raw qemu-img commands). Don't do this while the guest is running - using qemu-img is only safe for an offline image. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org