On 01/22/2013 09:27 AM, jurgen.depicker@let.be wrote:
What version of libvirt are you using? And is this within the virsh batch mode, or from the command line? root@VLET3:~# virsh --version 0.8.3
That explains it. Older virsh had lousy command line handling.
root@VLET3:~# virsh echo two spaces error: unknown command: 'echo'
Yep, I added the 'virsh echo' command when I fixed command line parsing. Meanwhile, you don't have to use virsh. You could write your own C program that directly calls virDomainSnapshotDelete() from libvirt.so, or you could use python bindings. I'm not a python whiz, but I think it would probably be something like: $ python
import libvirt conn = libvirt.open(None) dom = conn.lookupByName("DOMINO1-prealloc") snap = dom.snapshotLookupByName("W2K3-virgin install", 0) snap.delete(0) quit()
So, or I pray that my 20G remaining will suffice for one more month, or maybe someone knows how to rename a snapshot, or edit some config file where that name is configured?
Just because virsh command-line parsing is lousy doesn't mean that the underlying APIs won't work - you just have to get at them from somewhere other than virsh. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org