[libvirt-users] Help with understanding and solving snapshot problem
rolf
kalischt at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 22:38:44 UTC 2014
Hello
Thanks heaps for your suggestions. responses inline.
On 10 Apr 2014, at 10:34 pm, Eric Blake <eblake at rehost1hat.com> wrote:
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I’ll try and keep the lines short. I don’t see any obvious setting to change the wrap.
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>> Using RHEL 6.4 and libvirt version is 0.10.2 and qemu-img version is 0.12.1.2
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> Have you considered raising this as a support request with Red Hat?
My error. I am using RHEL 6.5. Sorry about the wrong info.
I could put this is to Red Hat but thought the mailing list might be a better initial place.
> From the upstream perspective, 0.10.2 is quite old, and Red Hat may be
> better equipped to answer questions about what snapshot support they
> have backported to that version of RHEL. In particular, the fact that
> you are not using RHEL 6.5 is a bit worrisome, and I also understand
> that RHEL 6.x tends to not support internal snapshots.
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>> # virsh snapshot-list host1
>> Name Creation Time State
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> snap1-host1 2014-01-19 16:59:10 +1100 shutoff
>>
>> #
>> # virsh snapshot-info host1 --current
>> Name: snap1-host1
>> Domain: host1
>> Current: yes
>> State: shutoff
>> Location: internal
>
> So the fact that you created an internal snapshot may have already put
> you in unsupported territory for the versions of software that you are
> using. That said, I can still try to help, and I hope that upstream
> behaves nicer in this regards, although you have certainly given us
> enough steps to try and reproduce if this is still a bug in upstream.
> Or maybe the bug is here, and you really did create an external snapshot
> but the code is reporting it incorrectly. Can you post the actual
> command that you used to create the snapshot?
>
Unfortunately no as I cannot remember it. I have a feeling that it was a menu item
in the virt-manager gui, but that said I can’t find it. It is most likely to have been the simplest
form of the virsh snapshot-create command.
>> Parent: -
>> Children: 0
>> Descendants: 0
>> Metadata: yes
>>
>> So I try and delete it:
>>
>> # virsh snapshot-delete host1 --current
>>
>> error: Failed to delete snapshot snap1-host1
>> error: unsupported configuration: deletion of 1 external disk snapshots not supported yet
>>
>> Why does it say “external” in the above error, when the snapshot-info says its Location is internal? Are they not related ideas?
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> It's very likely that you have tripped up on a bug, and perhaps on a bug
> that has been fixed in the meantime in newer libvirt, which either needs
> backporting to the RHEL version, or which Red Hat has deemed not worth
> backporting because of their level of limited snapshot support in RHEL
> 6. But again, going through a Red Hat support ticket will get faster
> results than asking upstream.
Thanks. I just did a yum update to libvirt and got libvirt-0.10.2-29.el6_5.7.x86_64.rpm
Which is not a big change.
In any event the error persists unchanged when I try to delete the snapshot.
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>> The img file /var/lib/libvirt/images/host1.img is not being used by KVM. the snapshot files are in use instead:
>>
>> # virsh domblklist host1
>> Target Source
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> vda /var/lib/libvirt/snap1-host1.qcow2
>> vdb /var/lib/libvirt/snap1-host1-db.qcow2
>> hdc -
>>
>> Querying them:
>>
>> # qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/snap1-host1.qcow2
>> image: /var/lib/libvirt/snap1-host1.qcow2
>> file format: qcow2
>> virtual size: 24G (25769803776 bytes)
>> disk size: 3.5G
>> cluster_size: 65536
>
> No external backing file listed; but I'm not sure how this relates to
> the original snapshot. Maybe you also want to show 'virsh
> snapshot-dumpxml host1 snap1-host1' to make it more obvious what the
> domain was using at the time you took the snapshot?
ok. That output shows:
# virsh snapshot-dumpxml host1 snap1-host1
<domainsnapshot>
<name>snap1-host1</name>
<description>After install completed</description>
<state>shutoff</state>
<creationTime>1390111150</creationTime>
<memory snapshot='no'/>
<disks>
<disk name='vda' snapshot='external'>
<driver type='qcow2'/>
<source file='/var/lib/libvirt/snap1-host1.qcow2'/>
</disk>
<disk name='vdb' snapshot='external'>
<driver type='qcow2'/>
<source file='/var/lib/libvirt/snap1-host1-db.qcow2'/>
</disk>
<disk name='hdc' snapshot='no'/>
</disks>
<domain type='kvm'>
<name>host1</name>
<uuid>e1a43a89-af8f-95e2-e242-a42a44afc127</uuid>
<memory unit='KiB'>16777216</memory>
<currentMemory unit='KiB'>16777216</currentMemory>
<vcpu placement='static'>6</vcpu>
<os>
<type arch='x86_64' machine='rhel6.5.0'>hvm</type>
<boot dev='hd'/>
<bootmenu enable='no'/>
</os>
<features>
<acpi/>
<apic/>
<pae/>
</features>
<clock offset='utc'/>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>restart</on_crash>
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm</emulator>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/>
<source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/host1.img'/>
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
</disk>
<disk type='block' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none' io='native'/>
<source dev='/dev/sdd1'/>
<target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/>
</disk>
<disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
<readonly/>
<address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' unit='0'/>
</disk>
<controller type='ide' index='0'>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/>
</controller>
<controller type='usb' index='0'/>
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='52:54:00:97:0e:67'/>
<source bridge='br3'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
</interface>
<serial type='pty'>
<target port='0'/>
</serial>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='serial' port='0'/>
</console>
<input type='tablet' bus='usb'/>
<input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
<graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes'/>
<sound model='ich6'>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
</sound>
<video>
<model type='cirrus' vram='9216' heads='1'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
</video>
<memballoon model='virtio'>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/>
</memballoon>
</devices>
</domain>
</domainsnapshot>
Not completely sure what to derive from that output?
>> [root at cocoa libvirt]# qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/snap1-host1-db.qcow2
>> image: /var/lib/libvirt/snap1-host1-db.qcow2
>> file format: qcow2
>> virtual size: 1.6T (1800279089664 bytes)
>> disk size: 325G
>> cluster_size: 65536
>>
>
> I don't quite have a full picture of how you got into the situation. If
> you are trying to just get rid of the snapshot, you could always try
> 'virsh snapshot-delete --metadata host1 snap1-host1', to make libvirt
> forget about the snapshot without cleaning up any actual data (leaving
> any external backing chains intact, and not removing internal snapshots
> from qcow2 files).
ok. What implications does this have long term?
Is there then a related step to remove the data of the snapshot that is no longer referenced?
Reclaiming the space would be handy.
And as before, given the structure of the VM and its two disks, how is a snapshot created
excluding the second disk? vdb in the above xml output?
Many thanks for your help so far.
regards
rolf.
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