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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Apparently it had nothing to do with the failed commit. After restarting the guest, I could do the snapshot and the active block commit. But… I can’t do it two times after each other without restarting
the guest…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Any clues?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">Van:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:NL"> Dominique Ramaekers
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<b>Verzonden:</b> donderdag 21 januari 2016 8:20<br>
<b>Aan:</b> libvirt-users@redhat.com<br>
<b>Onderwerp:</b> Error after failed external snapshot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I use this procedure to backup my VM’s: <a href="http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit">
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It works on my current host:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Compiled against library: libvirt 1.2.16<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Using library: libvirt 1.2.16<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Gebruikte API: QEMU 1.2.16<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Draaiende hypervisor: QEMU 2.1.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Now I’m doing a test on a testing host:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Compiled against library: libvirt 1.2.21<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Using library: libvirt 1.2.21<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Gebruikte API: QEMU 1.2.21<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Draaiende hypervisor: QEMU 2.5.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The first time, the active block commit failed because the block action was stuck on 100% and I got this error:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> ‘block copy still active: disk 'vda' not ready for pivot yet’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I did a ‘virsh blockjob PCVIRT1 vda –abort’ and started ‘virsh blockcommit PCVIRT1 vda --active --verbose –pivot’ again. This way, the external snapshot was commited ok.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Now I get this error when I want to create an external snapshot:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">fout: internal error: kan QEMU commando 'transaction' niet uitvoeren: The feature 'snapshot' is not enabled<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I can’t find a lot of information about this. Some help will be appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Greetings,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dominique.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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