Hi Bryan, Sorry, I haven't done any research about how to take the memory. Unfortunately, with the current implementation, I don't think there is any workaround.
Best regards, Slavka On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 9:51 AM Bryan Tiang <bryantian...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Slavka, > > Thanks! Another question, I understand that Storage-based Instance > Snapshots on KVM does not support memory snapshot. > > Are there any workaround to allow memory snapshot? > > Still using KVM and Linstor > > Regards, > Bryan > On 16 Nov 2023 at 3:21 PM +0800, Slavka Peleva > <slav...@storpool.com.INVALID>, wrote: > > Hi Bryan, > > > > Yes, you need qemu-guest-agent to be installed. This operation creates a > > volume snapshot for each volume that is attached to the VM while the > > virtual machine is frozen. > > Storage-based Instance Snapshots on KVM > > < > https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/adminguide/virtual_machines.html#storage-based-instance-snapshots-on-kvm > > > > > > Best regards, > > Slavka > > > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 7:47 AM Bryan Tiang <bryantian...@hotmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hey Swen, > > > > > > Thanks for this. But for this to work, we need to make sure each VM > > > spinner up has the QEMU agent installed, right? > > > > > > Regards, > > > Bryan > > > On 10 Nov 2023 at 9:54 PM +0800, m...@swen.io, wrote: > > > > Hi Bryan, > > > > > > > > you can use KVM with linstor to do VM snapshots. You just need to > enable > > > kvm.snapshot.enabled and kvm.vmstoragesnapshot.enabled in global > settings. > > > No NFS storage needed at all. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Swen > > > > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > > > Von: Bryan Tiang <bryantian...@hotmail.com> > > > > Gesendet: Freitag, 10. November 2023 14:12 > > > > An: Vivek Kumar via users <users@cloudstack.apache.org> > > > > Betreff: Cloudstack Linstor cant do live vm snapshots? > > > > > > > > Hi Community, > > > > > > > > We are using Cloudstack with Linstor. We want to achieve live > snapshots > > > as this is an important feature for us (can’t live without it). > > > > > > > > But based on the Cloudstack documentation, KVM Supports VM Snapshots > > > only when using NFS Shared Storage. > > > > > > > > Linstor does support NFS, but there are some limitations to it such > as > > > not being able to resize the NFS share file (need to create a new NFS > and > > > do manual migration). > > > > > > > > How are other users overcoming this issue with Cloudstack + Linstor? > Our > > > setup details below: > > > > > > > > Compute Hypervisor: Ubuntu 20/22 LTS KVM Primary Storage: Linstor Raw > > > Block Storage > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Bryan > > > > > > > > > > > >
