VM snapshot on KVM is not currently supported. There is, however, a pending pull request to fix this:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/977 - Si ________________________________________ From: Somesh Naidu <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 3:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Cannot take snapshot ok KVM in 4.8 Rui, That global config is for volume snapshots not virtual machine snapshots. Verify and update the following in the DB: select vm_snapshot_enabled from hypervisor_capabilities where hypervisor_type='KVM'; Regards, Somesh -----Original Message----- From: Rui Mao [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 4:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Cannot take snapshot ok KVM in 4.8 Hi all, CloudStack 4.8 & Ubuntu 14.04-3 I've set kvm.snapshot.enabled=true and rebooted the management server. But I still could not take snapshot of KVM VMs. Why? 2016-02-24 15:19:48,565 DEBUG [c.c.a.ApiServlet] (catalina-exec-24:ctx-c807e476) (logid:e61e9a4e) ===START=== 10.3.0.230 -- GET command=createVMSnapshot&virtualmachineid=1ea88b02-a560-4651-ba70-7131b0ce2c 08&snapshotmemory=false&quiescevm=false&name=vm1&response=json&_=14562983878 66 2016-02-24 15:19:48,583 INFO [c.c.a.ApiServer] (catalina-exec-24:ctx-c807e476 ctx-e13a9b41) (logid:e61e9a4e) VM snapshot is not enabled for hypervisor type: KVM 2016-02-24 15:19:48,584 DEBUG [c.c.a.ApiServlet] (catalina-exec-24:ctx-c807e476 ctx-e13a9b41) (logid:e61e9a4e) ===END=== 10.3.0.230 -- GET command=createVMSnapshot&virtualmachineid=1ea88b02-a560-4651-ba70-7131b0ce2c 08&snapshotmemory=false&quiescevm=false&name=vm1&response=json&_=14562983878 66 Best regards, Rui Mao
