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
On 01/21/2013 03:43 PM, jurgen.depicker@let.be wrote: 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? root@VLET3:~# virsh --version 0.8.3 (ubuntu 10.10 : I cannot upgrade it right now; I need to wait at least a month but need to remove the snapshots since I run out of disk space...) The error happens both on command-line and batch mode.
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
root@VLET3:~# virsh echo two spaces error: unknown command: 'echo' 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? I am very very sorry to see that this bug was solved in later versions... but I really cannot upgrade that server now... Grts, J