<tt>> On 01/21/2013 03:43 PM, jurgen.depicker@let.be wrote: > > Dear all, > > I created some snapshots, a long time ago, using the xml description > > option, so the snapshots have a name with a space in it... > > Really a bad choice apparently, since it seems impossible to delete them > > now: I cannot find how to enter the snapshot name properly due to the > > space. Quotes don't seem to help; escaping the space doesn't help either. > > Anybody knows how to solve this? > > eg: > > snapshot-delete DOMINO1-prealloc --snapshotname 'W2K3-virgin install' > > What version of libvirt are you using? And is this within the virsh > batch mode, or from the command line?</tt> <tt>root@VLET3:~# virsh --version</tt> <tt>0.8.3</tt> <tt>(ubuntu 10.10 : I cannot upgrade it right now; I need to wait at least a month but need to remove the snapshots since I run out of disk space...)</tt> <tt>The error happens both on command-line and batch mode.</tt> <tt> > > > error: Domain snapshot not found: no snapshot with matching name > > ''W2K3-virgin' > > (-> notive also the extra ' added ) > > That's not supposed to happen; quoting of spaces is supposed to mimic > shell quoting, so that you can use arguments with spaces in both command > line and batch mode. To test: > > # virsh echo two spaces > two spaces > # virsh echo 'two spaces' > two spaces</tt> <tt>root@VLET3:~# virsh echo two spaces</tt> <tt>error: unknown command: 'echo'</tt> <tt> So, or I pray that my 20G remaining will suffice for one more month, or maybe someone knows how to rename a snapshot, or edit some config file where that name is configured?</tt> <tt>I am very very sorry to see that this bug was solved in later versions... but I really cannot upgrade that server now...</tt> <tt>Grts, J</tt>