On 2019-06-10 8:10 p.m., Eric Blake wrote:
On 6/10/19 6:00 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
Do you know for sure whether you have internal or external snapshots?
And at this point, your questions are starting to wander more into
libvirt territory.
Yes. I'm using
On 6/10/19 6:00 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
>>> Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
>> Do you know for sure whether you have internal or external snapshots?
>> And at this point, your questions are starting to wander more into
>> libvirt territory.
>>
> Yes. I'm using internal snapshots. From your other
On 2019-06-10 6:07 p.m., Eric Blake wrote:
On 6/10/19 4:27 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
Trying this against a test VM, I ran into a roadblock. My command line
and the results are:
# virsh blockcommit stretch "/home/secure/virtual/stretch.qcow2" --top
stretchS3 --delete --wait
error: unsupported flags
On 6/10/19 5:47 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
>>>
>>> Since blockcommit would make it impossible for me to revert to an
>>> earlier state (because I'm committing the oldest snapshot, if it screws
>>> up, I can't undo within virsh), I need to make sure this command is
>>> correct.
>>>
>>>
> Interesting.
On 2019-06-10 6:04 p.m., Eric Blake wrote:
On 6/10/19 10:54 AM, Gary Dale wrote:
One explanation I've seen of the process is if I delete a snapshot, the
changes it contains are merged with its immediate child.
Nope. Deleting a snapshot decrements the reference count on all its
data clusters.
On 6/10/19 4:27 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
>>
> Trying this against a test VM, I ran into a roadblock. My command line
> and the results are:
>
> # virsh blockcommit stretch "/home/secure/virtual/stretch.qcow2" --top
> stretchS3 --delete --wait
> error: unsupported flags (0x2) in function
On 6/10/19 10:54 AM, Gary Dale wrote:
>>> One explanation I've seen of the process is if I delete a snapshot, the
>>> changes it contains are merged with its immediate child.
>> Nope. Deleting a snapshot decrements the reference count on all its
>> data clusters. If a data cluster's reference
On 2019-06-10 11:54 a.m., Gary Dale wrote:
On 2019-06-10 8:19 a.m., Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 08:12:01PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
A while back I converted a raw disk image to qcow2 to be able to use
snapshots. However I realize that I may not really understand
exactly how
On 2019-06-10 8:19 a.m., Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 08:12:01PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
A while back I converted a raw disk image to qcow2 to be able to use
snapshots. However I realize that I may not really understand exactly how
snapshots work. In this particular case, I'm
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 08:12:01PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> A while back I converted a raw disk image to qcow2 to be able to use
> snapshots. However I realize that I may not really understand exactly how
> snapshots work. In this particular case, I'm only talking about internal
> snapshots
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