Hi Eric, Live merge is not yet supported (IIRC by qemu). From the Live_Snapshots wiki page: "Live merge is not present in the upstream component yet (libvirt/qemu)"
Gadi Ickowicz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Bollengier" <e...@baculasystems.com> To: "Meital Bourvine" <mbour...@redhat.com> Cc: users@ovirt.org Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:41:54 AM Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt 3.4rc + Qemu Live snapshot : Problem to delete a Snapshot Hello Meital, Thanks for your answer, On 03/16/2014 10:04 AM, Meital Bourvine wrote: >> I upgraded to Ovirt 3.4rc allinone on centos6, and I compiled/installed >> the qemu-kvm-rhev to be able to take live snapshots. >> >> Taking the snapshot is OK, but I would like to delete them, and the >> button and the menu are disabled (grey) until I shutdown the VM. >> >> Once powered off, actions are available, and I'm able to delete snapshots. > > This is the expected behaviour. >> >> When looking the Snapshot Actions Matrix: >> http://www.ovirt.org/Live_Snapshots >> >> Is the "Revert" operation needed to delete a snapshot ? (Deleting a >> snapshot file implies to write changes from the snapshot file to the >> parent file, looks to be "Commit" for me). > > As far as I understand, revert means to go back to the point that you took > the snapshot, > while delete means to stay at the current point of time but deleting the > option to go back. OK, so given the Snapshot Actions Matrix, it should be possible to delete the snapshot via a "Live Merge" operation. So, why the delete action is not available while the VM is running? How can I enable this feature? Or maybe this feature is in the roadmap? Thanks, Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
