----- Soeren Malchow <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > thank you for the help, right now we are at a state where we can do snapshots > and remove them, since there are no ovirt packages for Fedora 21 we are using > fedora 20 + virt-preview.
> Everything is working fine from a spanshot perspective. Excellent. Glad to hear it! > > Regards > Soeren > > From: Gianluca Cecchi [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 10:23 PM > To: Adam Litke > Cc: users; Soeren Malchow; Thomas Keppler (PEBA) > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Backup solution using the API > > > Il 11/Feb/2015 19:10 "Adam Litke" > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> ha scritto: > > > > On 11/02/15 17:30 +0000, Soeren Malchow wrote: > >> > >> Dear all, > >> > >> i am a little lost, i tried quite a few things with the snapshots, so > >> far with python scripts I can iterate through the existing machines, > >> take one, make a snapshot and all this. > >> > >> However, there are 2 problems I can not get around: > >> > >> 1. even when on 3.5.1 I can not delete a snapshot on a running VM, if > >> I understood that correctly this relies on the Live Merge Feature > >> where the code is available in vdsm already but it needs a certain > >> libvirt version !?!? So question here is, can I delete a snapshot or > >> not ? can I use only the rest API not python (excuse me I am not a > >> developer) > > > > > > I can answer this one at least. For now, Centos 7 is lacking a new > > enough version of libvirt to support Live Merge (> 1.2.7). The > > virt-preview repository for Fedora is shipping a newer libvirt. You > > can check if vdsm will support live merge by executing the following > > on the host in question: > > > > sudo vdsClient -s 0 getVdsCaps | grep liveMerge > > > > RHEL 7.1 will be shipping a version with the neccessary backports to > > support live merge so I imagine Centos 7.1 will pick those up > > automatically? > > > > > > -- > > Adam Litke > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > I confirm that at least on f21 tc3 I was able to live delete snapshots, also > into the active layer. > See: > http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-November/029450.html > and the whole thread. > I hope that RHEL 7.1 (and CentOS) will have the merging into the active layer > too.... and not only into the chain history. > > Gianluca _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
