[ovirt-users] Re: Ovirt snapshot issues

Hi, Can you please provide engine.log and vdsm.log? On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 5:41 PM Alex K <rightkicktech(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi all, > > I have ovirt 4.2.7, self-hosted on top gluster, with two servers. > I have a specific VM which has encountered some snapshot issues. > The engine lists 4 snapshots and when trying to delete one of them I get "General > command validation failure". > > The VM was being backed up periodically by a python script which was > creating a snapshot -> clone -> export -> delete clone -> delete snapshot. > There were times where the VM was complaining of some illegal snapshots > following such backup procedures and I had to delete such illegal snapshots > references from the engine DB (following some steps found online), > otherwise I would not be able to start the VM if it was shut down. Seems > though that this is not a clean process and leaves the underlying image of > the VM in an inconsistent state in regards to its snapshots as when > checking the backing chain of the image file I get: > > *b46d8efe-885b-4a68-94ca-e8f437566bee* (active VM)* ->* > *b7673dca-6e10-4a0f-9885-1c91b86616af ->* > *4f636d91-a66c-4d68-8720-d2736a3765df ->* > 6826cb76-6930-4b53-a9f5-fdeb0e8012ac -> > 61eea475-1135-42f4-b8d1-da6112946bac -> > *604d84c3-8d5f-4bb6-a2b5-0aea79104e43 ->* > 1e75898c-9790-4163-ad41-847cfe84db40 -> > *cf8707f2-bf1f-4827-8dc2-d7e6ffcc3d43 ->* > 3f54c98e-07ca-4810-82d8-cbf3964c7ce5 (raw image) > > The bold ones are the ones shown at engine GUI. The VM runs normally > without issues. > I was thinking if I could use qemu-img commit to consolidate and remove > the snapshots that are not referenced from engine anymore. Any ideas from > your side? > > Thanx, > Alex > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/DDZXH5UG6QE... > -- Elad Ben Aharon ASSOCIATE MANAGER, RHV storage QE