<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 17/06/10 11:40, Julian Robbins wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4C19FBB8.9050703@q-par.com" type="cite">On 15/06/10 17:53, Julian Robbins wrote: <blockquote type="cite">I'm using vers 1.84 of QEMU/Kvm from dnjl's PPA for Lucid. </blockquote> After trying again, I can no longer get snapshots to work whilst vm guest in running. I have disabled apparmor so that it is only in 'complain' mode on the host, but still get :- Error -5 while writing VM whilst trying a virsh # snapshot-create openerp Whether running virsh as normal user or root. I'm also getting 'libvirtError: Timed out during operation: cannot acquirestate change lock' errors too, after I've tried to take a snapshot. </blockquote> Apologies after replying to my own post. After applying the latest update of kvm, libvirt etc from Daniel Baumann (dnjl)'s PPA (the one I had been previously using), I noticed a change was related to giving more permission to libvirt relating to access to disk storage when apparmor is running.<big> </big>With this update 0.8.1-2ubuntu1.1~dnjl1~lucid0, snapshots are fine again now. I can create/delete whilst guest is running or shutdown <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Kind regards Julian</pre> </body> </html>