Re: [libvirt-users] snapshot troubles
On 01/21/2013 03:43 PM, jurgen.depicker(a)let.be wrote:
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'
What version of libvirt are you using? And is this within the virsh
batch mode, or from the command line?
error: Domain snapshot not found: no snapshot with matching name
''W2K3-virgin'
(-> notive also the extra ' added )
That's not supposed to happen; quoting of spaces is supposed to mimic
shell quoting, so that you can use arguments with spaces in both command
line and batch mode. To test:
# virsh echo two spaces
two spaces
# virsh echo 'two spaces'
two spaces
# virsh
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
Type: 'help' for help with commands
'quit' to quit
virsh # echo two spaces
two spaces
virsh # echo 'two spaces'
two spaces
virsh # quit
root@VLET3:~# time virsh snapshot-delete DOMINO1-prealloc "W2K3-virgin\
install"
error: unexpected data 'install'
I'm not reproducing this; I tested with libvirt 0.10.2.2 (Fedora 18):
# virsh snapshot-list fedora-local
Name Creation Time State
------------------------------------------------------------
name with spaces 2013-01-22 09:05:07 -0700 shutoff
# virsh snapshot-delete fedora-local 'name with spaces'
Domain snapshot name with spaces deleted
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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