Hi Juergen, if you are using kvm/qemu with libvirt you can try to delete the snapshot with the qemu monitor commands. The general syntax is virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp <domain> '<command> [...]' So you can try virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp DOMINO1-prealloc 'info snapshots' and thne delete it with the provided snapshot ID virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp DOMINO1-prealloc 'delvm <ID>' This will delete the snapshot from your diskimage. Christian. On Di, 2013-01-22 at 18:00, libvirt-users-request(a)redhat.com wrote: > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:43:57 +0100 > From: jurgen.depicker(a)let.be > To: libvirt-users <libvirt-users(a)redhat.com&gt; > Subject: [libvirt-users] snapshot troubles > Message-ID: > <OF4AE792B7.46B8D599-ONC1257AFA.0073C652-C1257AFA.007D0C38(a)let.be&gt; > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > 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' > error: Domain snapshot not found: no snapshot with matching name > ''W2K3-virgin' > (-> notive also the extra ' added ) > > root@VLET3:~# time virsh snapshot-delete DOMINO1-prealloc > "W2K3-virgin\ > install" > error: unexpected data 'install' > > Thanks, Juergen >