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Fang Wang commented on CLOUDSTACK-732: -------------------------------------- Internal snapshot works, bot not the external snapshot with --disk-only option. 1. Internal snapshot: virsh # snapshot-list i-2-16-VM Name Creation Time State ------------------------------------------------------------ virsh # snapshot-create i-2-16-VM Domain snapshot 1358984012 created virsh # snapshot-list i-2-16-VM Name Creation Time State ------------------------------------------------------------ 1358984012 2013-01-23 18:33:32 -0500 running 2. External snapshot create fails: virsh # snapshot-create i-2-16-VM --disk-only error: operation failed: Failed to take snapshot: unknown command: 'snapshot_blkdev' > Add back KVM snapshot support > ----------------------------- > > Key: CLOUDSTACK-732 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-732 > Project: CloudStack > Issue Type: Bug > Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the > default.) > Components: KVM > Affects Versions: 4.0.0 > Environment: RHEL 6.3 > Reporter: edison su > Assignee: Fang Wang > Priority: Critical > Fix For: 4.1.0 > > > In the latest KVM(on both RHEL 6.3 and Ubuntu 12.04), it supports external > snapshot. We need to investigate the status of external snapshot, as far as I > know, it still doesn't support disk-only snapshot(taking snapshot will pause > VM for a long time, e.g. few minutes). > 1. testing external snapshot: take an external snapshot instead of default > qcow2 internal snapshot, then back it up into backup storage. Only need to > test with libvirt snapshot API, if it works, then works, no need to hack on > the qemu-kvm. > 2. test how long it will pause a VM during taking snapshot. from link [2] and > [3], only qemu-kvm-rhev supports disk-only snapshot, not sure ubuntu 12.04 > supports it or not. We need to investigate on the issue. > If item 1 and item 2(disk-only snapshot) works, then we can support default > kvm qcow2 snapshot again. > The link: > [1] > http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/snapshotting-with-libvirt-for-qcow2-images/ > [2] > http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/first-look-virtual-machine-online-disk-snapshots-coming-fedora-18 > [3] http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-July/msg00782.html -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira