Hi, dear friend.

My guest has two disks, vda and vdb. both are qcow2 local file.

When guest running state.

I want to take the vda snapshot of guest(just vda, no include vdb). but I met libvirt do snapshot for all disks of guest.

About methods for follow:

1、

``` bash

virsh

snapshot-create-as 8x0lbzvS --name sys_disk3 --disk-only --diskspec "vda,snapshot=external"

```

``` result

[root@10k03 ~]# ls -lh /opt/Images/*sys_disk3

-rw-------. 1 qemu qemu 194K 3月 20 23:27 /opt/Images/00d76a58-9637-4402-9739-21afd1246e06.sys_disk3

-rw-------. 1 qemu qemu 704K 3月 20 23:52 /opt/Images/8d582c1c-355a-4297-9434-2f2f562c77df.sys_disk3

```

2、

``` python

#!/usr/bin/env python

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import libvirt

import libvirt_qemu

import json

import sys

name = sys.argv[1]

print name

conn = libvirt.open()

dom = conn.lookupByName(name)

xml = """

<name>sysdisk_by_xml</name>

<disks>

</disk>

</disks>

</domainsnapshot>

"""

flags = 0

flags |= libvirt.VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_DISK_ONLY

flags |= libvirt.VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_QUIESCE

ret = dom.snapshotCreateXML(xmlDesc=xml, flags=flags)

```

``` result

[root@10k03 ~]# ls -lh /opt/Images/*sysdisk_by_xml

-rw-------. 1 qemu qemu 194K 3月 20 23:52 /opt/Images/00d76a58-9637-4402-9739-21afd1246e06.sysdisk_by_xml

-rw-------. 1 qemu qemu 1.2M 3月 21 00:03 /opt/Images/8d582c1c-355a-4297-9434-2f2f562c77df.sysdisk_by_xml

```

。

Now, I want to ask you, was you found the way?

James Iter