Asai, Make sure that the *snapshotmemory* parameter is set to true (Check Memory in GUI) in createVMSnapshot API for VM Snapshots in KVM after enabling global configuration.
-Suresh On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:10 PM Ivan Kudryavtsev <kudryavtsev...@bw-sw.com> wrote: > KVM whole VM snapshots work well in 4.11 as well as for separate volume > snapshots. You can do both for NFS and local storages. Just enable proper > global variable. > > ср, 22 авг. 2018 г., 23:23 Asai <a...@globalchangemusic.org>: > > > Thank you for your responses, > > > > What’s the difference, then, between a "VM" snapshot and a "VOLUME" > > snapshot? I liked how in XenServer, you could export a whole VM by first > > taking a snapshot. This was great for disaster recovery backup, is > there a > > way to do something similar in Cloudstack? > > > > Asai > > > > > > > On Aug 22, 2018, at 8:51 AM, Simon Weller <swel...@ena.com.INVALID> > > wrote: > > > > > > Make sure you have kvm.snapshot.enabled set to true in Global Settings. > > This setting change will probably require a management server restart. > > > > > > > > > - Si > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: Asai <a...@globalchangemusic.org> > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 10:44 AM > > > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > > > Subject: KVM Live Snapshots > > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > We successfully upgraded to 4.11.1. One of the main reasons we did > this > > was that we thought this would enable us to do live KVM snapshots of > > running VMs. This doesn’t seem to be the case, though. When I try to > > snapshot a running VM, I just get the message: "KVM VM does not allow to > > take a disk-only snapshot when VM is in running state" > > > > > > Is there a way currently to do this with Cloudstack and KVM VMs? > > > > > > Asai > > > > > > > > > > >
