Question regarding VM snapshot restrictions

Hi, With 4.5 there are some restrictions applied to VMs that have VM snapshots. According to CLOUDSTACK-7688 VM snapshot stops working when the following operations are performed on VM with VM snapshots: 1. Volumes of VM are migrated to othe

Re: Question regarding VM snapshot restrictions

Hi Jan-Arve, In which order have you tried adding vCPUs and NICs? i.e. After creating VM snapshot or before creating snapshot. And have you deleted VM snapshots before adding vCPUs and NICs? Regards, Anshul On 24-Apr-2015, at 5:58 pm, Jan-Arve Nygård mailto:jan.arve.nyg...@gmail.com>> wrote: H

Re: Question regarding VM snapshot restrictions

Thanks Anshul, I did a quick test with adding vCPU and NIC in XenCenter after creating a snapshot through CloudStack. I also tried reverting the VM to the snapshots afterwards with the vCPU and NIC still added, and it worked OK. This made curious about what the background and details for this pat

Re: Question regarding VM snapshot restrictions

These restrictions are not there due to Hypervisor limitations. These limitations are due to way this feature is implemented in CloudStack. If we allow those operation then they may work fine but in long run they may lead to corruption of VM etc. So to avoid those situation these restrictions ar

Re: Question regarding VM snapshot restrictions

Thanks Anshul, just what i wanted to know :) -thinktwo 2015-04-28 12:16 GMT+02:00 Anshul Gangwar : > These restrictions are not there due to Hypervisor limitations. These > limitations are due to way this feature is implemented in CloudStack. > If we allow those operation then they may work fine