[ovirt-devel] snapshot for LVM2 Volume

[Nir Soffer]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "yao xu" <xuyao18 at gmail.com>
> To: devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 5:45:24 AM
> Subject: [ovirt-devel] snapshot for LVM2 Volume
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I am using ovirt 3.1 in iSCSI environment . I fixed some bug of vdsm..
> 
> In this version , snapshot only for disk, not memory .
> 
> When I try to take snapshot for a running vm , error log shown in vdsm.log
> 
> libvirtError: unsupported configuration: source for disk 'vda' is not a
> regular file; refusing to generate external snapshot name
> 
> After reading libvirt's mail archive, I found a patch in this mail :
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-November/msg00843.html
> 
> but in vdsm environment, every image from iSCSI server is a link file or a
> dev file , not a regular file .
> 
> Do you have any solution ? Or I should patch more code , something like
> memory snapshot ?

Who will support your patched ovirt-3.1?

The best fix is to upgrade to the latest stable version, ovirt 3.5.

Nir