Hello, I got a question here. When we create consistent active external 
snapshots with flag “VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_QUIESCE” , the 
qemuDomainSnapshotFSFreeze will be called firstly to freeze all filesystems in 
vm, and then create snapshots. For windows vm, freezing filesystems used by vss 
service. If IO pressure in vm is too big or internal error happened in vss , 
freezing filesytems will failed , and qemuDomainSnapshotFSFreeze returns 0 
which meaning that no filesystems are frozen. In the function 
qemuDomainSnapshotCreateActiveExternal, libvirt creates external snapshots all 
the same in such a situation that qemuDomainSnapshotFSFreeze returns 0, but the 
created snapshots are not consistent snapshots in such a situation . So 
shouldn't we abandon creating snapshots and goto cleanup in the situation that 
qemuDomainSnapshotFSFreeze returns 0?

The code below:


static int
qemuDomainSnapshotCreateActiveExternal(virConnectPtr conn,
                    virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
                   virDomainObjPtr vm,
                    virDomainSnapshotObjPtr snap,
                    unsigned int flags)
{
    virObjectEventPtr event;
    bool resume = false;
    int ret = -1;
    qemuDomainObjPrivatePtr priv = vm->privateData;
    char *xml = NULL;
    bool memory = snap->def->memory == VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_LOCATION_EXTERNAL;
    bool memory_unlink = false;
    bool atomic = !!(flags & VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_ATOMIC);
    bool transaction = virQEMUCapsGet(priv->qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_TRANSACTION);
    int thaw = 0; /* 1 if freeze succeeded, -1 if freeze failed */
    bool pmsuspended = false;
    virQEMUDriverConfigPtr cfg = NULL;
    int compressed;
    char *compressedpath = NULL;

    /* If quiesce was requested, then issue a freeze command, and a
     * counterpart thaw command when it is actually sent to agent.
     * The command will fail if the guest is paused or the guest agent
     * is not running, or is already quiesced.  */
    if (flags & VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_QUIESCE) {
        int freeze = qemuDomainSnapshotFSFreeze(driver, vm, NULL, 0);
        if (freeze < 0) {
            /* the helper reported the error */
            if (freeze == -2)
                thaw = -1; /* the command is sent but agent failed */
            goto cleanup;
        }
        thaw = 1;
    }

    ......
    ......

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