[libvirt] [PATCH v3 0/3] qemu: Forbid internal snapshots with pflash-based firmware (OVMF)

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Fri Mar 24 13:25:25 UTC 2017


On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 14:05:39 +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> Patches 1 and 2 are new in the series and add an option to override the check so
> that users can use the feature despite being unsafe.
> 
> See patch 3/3 for clarification of the motiovation to do this.
> 
> Peter Krempa (3):
>   virerror: Introduce VIR_ERR_OPERATION_UNSAFE
>   snapshot: Introduce flag VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_UNSAFE
>   qemu: snapshot: Forbid internal snapshots with pflash firmware

Self NACK series. Turns out that our HMP error detection for 'savevm'
sucks. Snapshots with PFLASH are not supported at all, but libvirt
thinks they are. V2 is the way to go with mentioning that actually it's
a libvirt bug.
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