[libvirt-users] snapshot anomaly

[Doug Hughes]

THat did it! Can you esplain what was going on and how that fixed it? Thanks


On 8/23/2017 10:50 AM, Sakhi Hadebe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can you try this command:
> virsh snapshot-delete serv1r2 snap --metadata
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Doug Hughes
> <doug.hughes at keystonenap.com <mailto:doug.hughes at keystonenap.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm not sure how this snapshot got created, but, I cannot delete
>     it, and its presence prevents me from creating other snapshots. I
>     don't know if it was created by a command gone amok or something else.
>
>     # virsh snapshot-list serv1r2
>      Name                 Creation Time             State
>     ------------------------------------------------------------
>      snap                 2017-01-30 17:01:11 -0500 shutoff
>
>     # virsh snapshot-delete serv1r2 snap --disk-only
>     error: command 'snapshot-delete' doesn't support option --disk-only
>
>     # virsh snapshot-dumpxml serv1r2 snap
>     <domainsnapshot>
>       <name>snap</name>
>       <state>shutoff</state>
>       <creationTime>1485813671</creationTime>
>       <memory snapshot='no'/>
>       <disks>
>         <disk name='vda' snapshot='external' type='file'>
>           <driver type='qcow2'/>
>           <source
>     file='/*var/lib/libvirt/images/serv1r2-savesnap.qcow2'/*>
>         </disk>
>         <disk name='fda' snapshot='no'/>
>         <disk name='hda' snapshot='no'/>
>       </disks>
>
>     #  ls -l /var/lib/libvirt/images/serv1r2-savesnap.qcow2
>     ls: cannot access /var/lib/libvirt/images/serv1r2-savesnap.qcow2:
>     No such file or directory
>
>     # virsh snapshot-create-as --domain serv1r2 snap --diskspec
>     vda,file=/var/lib/libvirt/flashimages/serv1r2-snap.qcow2 
>     --disk-only --atomic --no-metadata --quiesce
>     error: internal error: unexpected domain snapshot snap already exists
>
>     # virsh snapshot-revert serv1r2 snap
>     error: unsupported configuration: revert to external snapshot not
>     supported yet
>
>     Any idea for breaking out of this box?
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Doug Hughes
>     Keystone NAP
>     Fairless Hills, PA
>     1.844.KEYBLOCK (539.2562) 	
>
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> Regards,
> Sakhi Hadebe
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-- 
Doug Hughes
Keystone NAP
Fairless Hills, PA
1.844.KEYBLOCK (539.2562) 	

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