Re: [libvirt-users] virsh dom state
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 05:49:36PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
On 23.03.2015 16:02, Fiorenza Meini wrote:
> Hi there,
> I'm running KVM under Openstack .
>
> When I give virsh list command, I see some VM in NON persistent state.
> What does it mean? How can I move it to a persisten state ?
You can do that by running:
virsh dumpxml $dom > dom.xml && virsh define dom.xml
>
> I found that I cannot make a snapshot, from Openstack , of a machine
> which is in a NON PERSISTENT state.
However, I don't think it's a good idea to go behind OpenStack's back
and change things.
Michal is totally right, it gets really messy.
If you have a live or offline Nova instance, and you're running current
OpenStack stable release (e.g. 'Juno').
You can trivially make a snapshot:
$ nova image-create vm snap1-of-vm --poll
And, can boot instances off based on it:
$ nova boot --flavor 1 --key_name oskey1 --image snap1-of-vm newvm
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/kashyap