[libvirt-users] External snapshot issue

[Leroy Tennison]

I have used

    virsh snapshot-create-as <VM name> <snapshot name> "<snapshot
    description>" --diskspec
    "vda,snapshot=external,file=/path/to/external-snapshot" --disk-only
    --atomic

to create an external snapshot of a running VM.  I followed it with

    virsh blockpull <VM name> --path /path/to/external-snapshot

and monitored it until done.  I confirmed it with

    qemu-img info /path/to/external-snapshot

which shows no backing store.

However, when I do

    grep {/etc,/run}/libvirt/qemu/<VM name>.xml

the xml for the VM still shows a backing store in the /run/... 
definition (but not in the /etc/... definition, my understanding is that 
the /etc/... definition won't be updated until the VM is shut down):

       <disk type='file' device='disk'>
         <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/>
         <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/external-snapshot.qcow2'/>
         <backingStore type='file' index='1'>
           <format type='qcow2'/>
           <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/original-image-file.qcow'/>
           <backingStore/>
         </backingStore>
         <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
         <alias name='ide0-0-0'/>
         <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
       </disk>

This is using libvirtd version 1.3.1 and qemu-img version 2.5.0.

How do I resolve this situation?  I don't want to have to rely on a 
backing store permanently.  Thanks for any help or pointers.

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