[libvirt-users] snapshot troubles

[Christian Schmidt]

Hi Juergen,

if you are using kvm/qemu with libvirt you can try to delete the
snapshot with the qemu monitor commands. 
The general syntax is 
virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp <domain> '<command> [...]'

So you can try
virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp DOMINO1-prealloc 'info snapshots'

and thne delete it with the provided snapshot ID 
virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp DOMINO1-prealloc 'delvm <ID>'

This will delete the snapshot from your diskimage.


Christian.



On Di, 2013-01-22 at 18:00, libvirt-users-request at redhat.com wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:43:57 +0100
> From: jurgen.depicker at let.be
> To: libvirt-users <libvirt-users at redhat.com>
> Subject: [libvirt-users] snapshot troubles
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> Dear all,
> I created some snapshots, a long time ago, using the xml description 
> option, so the snapshots have a name with a space in it...
> Really a bad choice apparently, since it seems impossible to delete
> them 
> now: I cannot find how to enter the snapshot name properly due to the 
> space.  Quotes don't seem to help; escaping the space doesn't help
> either.
> Anybody knows how to solve this?
> eg:
> snapshot-delete DOMINO1-prealloc --snapshotname 'W2K3-virgin install'
> error: Domain snapshot not found: no snapshot with matching name 
> ''W2K3-virgin'
> (-> notive also the extra ' added )
> 
> root at VLET3:~# time virsh snapshot-delete DOMINO1-prealloc
> "W2K3-virgin\ 
> install"
> error: unexpected data 'install'
> 
> Thanks, Juergen
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