[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: snapshot: Don't mark all block disks for metadata reuse

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Mon Jun 16 14:00:55 UTC 2014


On 06/16/2014 06:29 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> For block devices used as snapshot source the new snapshot code would
> set the reuse flag. This inhibits to take snapshot without specially
> preparing the block image before taking the snapshot.
> 
> Fortunately this is not a regression as only the new way of specifying
> snapshot source is affected.
> 
> For the followin snapshot XML:
>  <domainsnapshot>
>    <disks>
>      <disk name='vda' type='block'>
>        <driver type='qcow2'/>
>        <source dev="/dev/andariel/testsnap" />
>      </disk>
>    </disks>
>  </domainsnapshot>
> 
> You'd get:
> error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'transaction': Image is not in qcow2 format
> 
> After this patch the snapshot is created successfully.
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

ACK.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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