Hello Meital,

Thanks for your answer,

On 03/16/2014 10:04 AM, Meital Bourvine wrote:
>> I upgraded to Ovirt 3.4rc allinone on centos6, and I compiled/installed
>> the qemu-kvm-rhev to be able to take live snapshots.
>>
>> Taking the snapshot is OK, but I would like to delete them, and the
>> button and the menu are disabled (grey) until I shutdown the VM.
>>
>> Once powered off, actions are available, and I'm able to delete snapshots.
>
> This is the expected behaviour. 
>>
>> When looking the Snapshot Actions Matrix:
>> http://www.ovirt.org/Live_Snapshots
>>
>> Is the "Revert" operation needed to delete a snapshot ? (Deleting a
>> snapshot file implies to write changes from the snapshot file to the
>> parent file, looks to be "Commit" for me).
>
> As far as I understand, revert means to go back to the point that you took 
> the snapshot,
> while delete means to stay at the current point of time but deleting the 
> option to go back.


OK, so given the Snapshot Actions Matrix, it should be possible to
delete the snapshot via a "Live Merge" operation. So, why the delete
action is not available while the VM is running? How can I enable this
feature? Or maybe this feature is in the roadmap?

Thanks,

Regards,

Eric
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