[libvirt] [PATCHv4 24/51] snapshot: prevent stranding snapshot data on domain destruction

[Philipp Hahn]

Hello Eric,

thank you for your answer; I had hoped to stop your from spending any further 
time ony this by my 2nd mail from October 26, because I found my thinko 
myself after reading some more code. Actually I was reading a patched 
version, where the patch broke it.

> > This behaviour is actually documented in
> > <http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainUndefineFlags>
> > (now that I know what I have to look at), but I was still surprised that
> > virDomainUndefineFlags(0) returned success on my inactive domain with
> > snapshots.
>
> That shouldn't happen - virDomainUndefineFlags(0) on an inactive domain
> should fail if the domain has snapshots.  Is this something you actually
> hit, and can you give me steps to reproduce?

The patch tried to work around the case of migrating VMs with snapshots, which 
is (as far as I know) still not possible, because there is no way to migrate 
the unknown size of snapshot xml data.
Our current workaround is to put /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/snapshot/ on a NFS and 
to patch libvirt not to delete the snapshot XML data von 
migrate --undefinesource.

So thanks again for spending your time; your mail was still much appreciated.

Sincerely
Philipp
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