<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"csyeow" <csyeow@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>users@ovirt.org<br><b>Cc: </b>"csyeow ( gmail )" <csyeow@gmail.com><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, September 19, 2016 1:11:42 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[ovirt-users] how to create vm from snapshot via ovirt-shell (ovirt 4.0)<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi ovirt expertise<br><div><br></div></div><div>i am new to ovirt, i now start install and play around.<br></div><div><br></div>i unable find any doc from web site to create vm from snapshot via ovirt-shell (ovirt 4.0) , any help on this.<br></div><div>i mange to create vm from snapshot via webui<br></div><div><br></div><div>i would like to perform backup vm via api by using ovirt-shell. i have totally no knowledge on python <br><div><br></div></div><div>ideal as below:<br><div><br></div></div><div>create snapshot<br></div><div>#add snapshot --parent-vm-name "rhel6.8_server02" --description 'my snapshot'<br><div><br></div>create vm from snapshot<br></div><div>## missing, need help</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi,<br></div><div><br></div><div>you mean you want to start a VM with the snapshot attached?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps this page could help<br></div><div>https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/backup-restore-api-integration/</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bests,<br></div><div><br><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><span name="x"></span>Francesco Romani<br>RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D<br>Phone: 8261328<br>IRC: fromani<span name="x"></span><br></div></div></body></html>