Thank you for your responses, What’s the difference, then, between a "VM" snapshot and a "VOLUME" snapshot? I liked how in XenServer, you could export a whole VM by first taking a snapshot. This was great for disaster recovery backup, is there a way to do something similar in Cloudstack?
Asai > On Aug 22, 2018, at 8:51 AM, Simon Weller <swel...@ena.com.INVALID> wrote: > > Make sure you have kvm.snapshot.enabled set to true in Global Settings. This > setting change will probably require a management server restart. > > > - Si > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Asai <a...@globalchangemusic.org> > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 10:44 AM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: KVM Live Snapshots > > Greetings, > > We successfully upgraded to 4.11.1. One of the main reasons we did this was > that we thought this would enable us to do live KVM snapshots of running VMs. > This doesn’t seem to be the case, though. When I try to snapshot a running > VM, I just get the message: "KVM VM does not allow to take a disk-only > snapshot when VM is in running state" > > Is there a way currently to do this with Cloudstack and KVM VMs? > > Asai > >
