[libvirt PATCH 2/2] virsh: man: update snapshot-revert description

Pavel Hrdina phrdina at redhat.com
Tue Nov 23 14:23:15 UTC 2021


We've changed the behavior of this API that from now on it will always
restart the VM process and we are no longer able to revert to snapshots
created by libvirt older then 0.9.5.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina at redhat.com>
---
 docs/manpages/virsh.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/manpages/virsh.rst b/docs/manpages/virsh.rst
index 5f5ccfeafe..39636a565e 100644
--- a/docs/manpages/virsh.rst
+++ b/docs/manpages/virsh.rst
@@ -7293,6 +7293,10 @@ no vm state leaves the domain in an inactive state.  Passing either the
 transient domains cannot be inactive, it is required to use one of these
 flags when reverting to a disk snapshot of a transient domain.
 
+Since libvirt 7.10.0 the VM process is always restarted so the following
+paragraph is no longer valid. If the snapshot metadata lacks the full
+VM XML it's no longer possible to revert to such snapshot.
+
 There are a number of cases where a snapshot revert involves extra risk, which
 requires the use of *--force* to proceed:
 
-- 
2.31.1




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