By external do you mean the qemu that comes with 6.3? In other words, nothing has to be done for 6.3 other than removing/changing the check?
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Edison Su <edison...@citrix.com> wrote: > The snapshot for KVM is not supported right now. > In CS 3.x, we use patched qemu-kvm to take snapshot, and backup the snapshot > from qcow2 image to secondary storage. In ASF 4.x, we will not patch qemu-kvm > again. Instead, we will use external snapshot added in 6.3. But it hasn't > done yet, maybe in 4.1 release? > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Sowmya Krishnan [mailto:sowmya.krish...@citrix.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 4:39 AM >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: [ASF40] [QA] Issue with volume Snapshot on KVM >> >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to take snapshot of volume on KVM (RHEL6.3) and I am >> getting an exception that says it isn't supported: >> >> 2012-09-26 15:09:11,411 ERROR [cloud.api.ApiDispatcher] (Job-Executor- >> 16:job-27) Exception while executing CreateSnapshotCmd: >> com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException: KVM Snapshot is not >> supported on cluster: 5 >> at >> com.cloud.storage.snapshot.SnapshotManagerImpl.createSnapshot(SnapshotM >> anagerImpl.java:424) >> at >> com.cloud.utils.component.ComponentLocator$InterceptorDispatcher.interc >> ept(ComponentLocator.java:1231) >> at >> com.cloud.storage.snapshot.SnapshotManagerImpl.createSnapshot(SnapshotM >> anagerImpl.java:130) >> at >> com.cloud.api.commands.CreateSnapshotCmd.execute(CreateSnapshotCmd.java >> :155) >> at com.cloud.api.ApiDispatcher.dispatch(ApiDispatcher.java:138) >> at >> com.cloud.async.AsyncJobManagerImpl$1.run(AsyncJobManagerImpl.java:432) >> at >> java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) >> at >> java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) >> at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) >> at >> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.ja >> va:1110) >> at >> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.j >> ava:603) >> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679) >> >> I am on build: Git Revision: 995bab60385f7d663680ef6f5342056c6db3d305 >> It's working fine on Ubuntu 12.04 and XS 6.0.2. >> >> Here's the DB extract of 'host' table on RHEL6.3 vs Ubuntu12.04: >> >> RHEL 6.3: >> ======= >> >> mysql> select id, status, type, hypervisor_type, capabilities from >> cloud.host; >> +----+--------+--------------------+-----------------+--------------+ >> | id | status | type | hypervisor_type | capabilities | >> +----+--------+--------------------+-----------------+--------------+ >> | 1 | Up | Routing | KVM | hvm | >> | 2 | Alert | SecondaryStorage | None | NULL | >> | 3 | Up | SecondaryStorageVM | NULL | NULL | >> | 4 | Up | ConsoleProxy | NULL | NULL | >> | 5 | Up | Routing | KVM | hvm | >> +----+--------+--------------------+-----------------+--------------+ >> 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) >> >> Ubuntu 12.04: >> =========== >> >> mysql> select id, status, type, hypervisor_type, capabilities from >> cloud.host; >> +----+--------+--------------------+-----------------+--------------+ >> | id | status | type | hypervisor_type | capabilities | >> +----+--------+--------------------+-----------------+--------------+ >> | 1 | Up | Routing | KVM | hvm | >> | 2 | Alert | SecondaryStorage | None | NULL | >> | 3 | Up | ConsoleProxy | NULL | NULL | >> | 4 | Up | SecondaryStorageVM | NULL | NULL | >> | 5 | Up | Routing | KVM | hvm,snapshot | >> | 6 | Up | Routing | KVM | hvm | >> +----+--------+--------------------+-----------------+--------------+ >> 6 rows in set (0.00 sec) >> >> >> Am I missing any additional package to be installed for snapshot to >> work on KVM? >> >> I have the following versions of qemu-img and qemu-kvm installed on my >> host: >> >> [root@rhel63 ~]# rpm -qa | grep qemu >> gpxe-roms-qemu-0.9.7-6.9.el6.noarch >> qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6.x86_64 >> qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6.x86_64 >> >> Thanks, >> Sowmya >
