https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/VM+Snapshots
>From my experience, though, VM snapshot also supports XenServer (mine is 6.2). It also facilitates XenServer's native snapshot capibility, and works flawlessly. I have no idea why the release notes and admin guide ONLY mention VMware, as opposed to the wiki. :( ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yu-Heng (Ryan) Lei, Associate Researcher Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories / Cloud Computing Laboratory [email protected]<https://email.cht.com.tw/owa/redir.aspx?C=-wE1FEC3G0SWYpVkiWo8SsDdf3ZqO9AIuAPTzRnFYCUi-z4YljtI_hyVKkNHfn9F1Bn-vUWJnQ4.&URL=mailto%3aryanlei%40cht.com.tw> or [email protected] On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Sanjeev Neelarapu < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Instance Snapshot is only supported on VMWare. It uses VMWare native > snapshot facility. > Please refer > http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.2.0/html/Admin_Guide/vm-snapshots.html > > Thanks, > Sanjeev > > -----Original Message----- > From: motty cruz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 9:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CS 4.2 VM snapshot is not enabled for hypervisor type: KVM > > Hi Sebastien, > > I was not able to solve the snapshot issue, I can take a snapshot of a > disk but not of the "instance", I still get the "VM snapshot is not > enabled for hypervisor type: KVM" > > I enabled KVM snapshot in Global Settings, someone suggested to turn off > the instance, which I did but no success, > > Thanks, > > > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Sebastien Goasguen <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > On Oct 31, 2013, at 6:40 PM, motty cruz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 2013-10-31 13:03:50,030 DEBUG [agent.manager.AgentAttache] > > > (AgentManager-Handler-9:null) Seq 5-1100677197: No more commands > > > found > > > 2013-10-31 13:03:50,056 DEBUG [storage.snapshot.SnapshotManagerImpl] > > > (Job-Executor-3:job-128 = [ 4f046198-2bf6-4fac-9a80-9debb05ee76b ]) > > Failed > > > to create snapshot > > > com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException: clvmd not running on > > > node kvm2.fqdn.comDisk > > /dev/hitachi-2/ff599482-7bcf-41e6-9ca4-738f4fb94bc9 > > > has no snapshot called 71bb6af455688c8d1de850551fad31c3. > > > at > > > > > org.apache.cloudstack.storage.snapshot.SnapshotServiceImpl.backupSnaps > > hot(Sn > > > > > > > Motty, did you get that solved ? > > It seemed to be a CLVM error. Marcuse Sorensen is the expert in CLVM > > :) > > > > -sebastien > > > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Sebastien Goasguen > > ><[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > >> Anything in the management server logs ? > > >> > > >> On Oct 31, 2013, at 3:53 PM, motty cruz <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >>> yes I did restart the management server, twice. but not > > >>> successful, > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Sebastien Goasguen > > >>> <[email protected] > > >>> wrote: > > >>> > > >>>> > > >>>> On Oct 31, 2013, at 3:32 PM, motty cruz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >>>> > > >>>>> Hello, > > >>>>> I'm having issues with snapshot, when trying to take a snapshot > > >>>>> I get > > >> the > > >>>>> following error: "VM snapshot is not enabled for hypervisor type: > > VKM" > > >>>>> > > >>>>> but I do have it enable in Global settings, am I missing a step? > > >>>>> kvm.snapshot.enabled = true, > > >>>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> Did you restart the management server ? > > >>>> > > >>>>> > > >>>>> Thanks, > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >> > > >> > > > > >
