<div dir="ltr">Many Many Thanks, Dominique!!! Will give it a try!<div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Dominique Ramaekers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dominique.ramaekers@cometal.be" target="_blank">dominique.ramaekers@cometal.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Dear Liam,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">You need to upgrade to the latest LTS version of Ubuntu (16.04).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I refer to my message to this mailing list on 17/03/2016:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Following this user mailing list over a period of time, I saw a few messages regarding not being able using the external
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I refer to this procedure: <a href="http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit" target="_blank">http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I would like to mention this hoping it will help those users:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Using external snapshots works perfect again in qemu 2.5.0 together with this patch <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300209" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300209</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Full version list on which I did my testing:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Compiled against library: libvirt 1.3.1<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Gebruikte API: QEMU 1.3.1<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Greetings,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Dominique.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Van:</span></b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:libvirt-users-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">libvirt-users-bounces@redhat.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:libvirt-users-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">libvirt-users-bounces@redhat.com</a>]
<b>Namens </b>Liam Curtis<br>
<b>Verzonden:</b> dinsdag 3 mei 2016 17:00<br>
<b>Aan:</b> <a href="mailto:libvirt-users@redhat.com" target="_blank">libvirt-users@redhat.com</a><br>
<b>Onderwerp:</b> [libvirt-users] Ubuntu 14.04 virsh 1.2.2 blockcommit hangs at 100% / command 'blockcommit' doesn't support option --pivot<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think I have seen this in previous bugs. Trying to live backup qcow2 images. I am able to virsh snapshot-create-as and virsh domblklist shows correct new source, but I am unable to commit back changes to qcow base. I get the above error.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I tried compiling latest libvirt, but cannot get it to connect to socket on installed binaries<u></u><u></u></p>
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