[libvirt PATCH 0/7] external snapshot revert fixes

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Thu Aug 31 15:49:23 UTC 2023


On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 17:06:35 +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 04:54:59PM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> > This fixes reverting external snapshots to not error out in cases where  
> > it should work and makes it correctly load the memory state when         
> > reverting to snapshot of running VM.
> 
> Forget to mention that we need this to be in 9.7.0 otherwise I will have
> to revert commit <de71573bfec7f3acd22ec74794318de121716e21> introducing
> capability to indicate that reverting external snapshots is usable.

Given that the release is tomorrow and I conceptually don't like using
the 'save image' function to open iternal snapshots which do not have a
save image at all (memory state is stored _internally_ in qcow2) I think
the safest will be if you also send this variant.


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