On 01/21/2013 03:43 PM, jurgen.depicker@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 -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org