Hi Juergen, if you are using kvm/qemu with libvirt you can try to delete the snapshot with the qemu monitor commands. The general syntax is virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp <domain> '<command> [...]' So you can try virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp DOMINO1-prealloc 'info snapshots' and thne delete it with the provided snapshot ID virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp DOMINO1-prealloc 'delvm <ID>' This will delete the snapshot from your diskimage. Christian. On Di, 2013-01-22 at 18:00, libvirt-users-request@redhat.com wrote:
Message: 3 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:43:57 +0100 From: jurgen.depicker@let.be To: libvirt-users <libvirt-users@redhat.com> Subject: [libvirt-users] snapshot troubles Message-ID: <OF4AE792B7.46B8D599-ONC1257AFA.0073C652-C1257AFA.007D0C38@let.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Dear all, I created some snapshots, a long time ago, using the xml description option, so the snapshots have a name with a space in it... Really a bad choice apparently, since it seems impossible to delete them now: I cannot find how to enter the snapshot name properly due to the space. Quotes don't seem to help; escaping the space doesn't help either. Anybody knows how to solve this? eg: snapshot-delete DOMINO1-prealloc --snapshotname 'W2K3-virgin install' error: Domain snapshot not found: no snapshot with matching name ''W2K3-virgin' (-> notive also the extra ' added )
root@VLET3:~# time virsh snapshot-delete DOMINO1-prealloc "W2K3-virgin\ install" error: unexpected data 'install'
Thanks, Juergen