Hi After kindly answering my question on snapshots not working whilst vm is on, i find that apparmor is still disturbing the process where snapshots can get written But although i should just be able to disable apparmor for my vm in virt-manager, whilst vm is off; that when i start the vm the apparmor settings go back to being enabled and set to dynamic This is stopping me from taking snapshots again whilst vm is on. :-( I have also tried disabling the apparmor profile for libvirt on the host but this appears to have had no effect. I know very little about appamor and it is not particularly important to be used in this case. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on both host and guest 64 bit. -- Kind regards Julian Robbins