Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt VM backup and restore

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi(a)gmail.comwrote: Possibly the default changed at some point in time, so that now it saves memory and so this implies pause of VM In the mean time I verified changing backup.py this way solves the problem (the 3.6 api deprecation still in place... ;-): $ diff backup.py backup.py.orig 123c123 < vm.snapshots.add(params.Snapshot(description=config.get_snapshot_description(), vm=vm,persist_memorystate=False)) --- vm.snapshots.add(params.Snapshot(description=config.get_snapshot_description(), vm=vm)) The snapshot doesn't include memory and no problem at VM OS side now Tested also getting the parameter from config file Modifications needed in this case: 1) $ diff backup.py backup.py.orig 123c123 < vm.snapshots.add(params.Snapshot(description=config.get_snapshot_description(), vm=vm,persist_memorystate=config.get_persist_memorystate())) --- vm.snapshots.add(params.Snapshot(description=config.get_snapshot_description(), vm=vm)) 2) $ diff config.py config.py.orig 34d33 < self.__persist_memorystate = config_parser.getboolean(section, "persist_memorystate") 113,116d111 < < < def get_persist_memorystate(self): < return self.__persist_memorystate And in config file called add: # Save Memory in snapshot persist_memorystate=False It could be further improved if one wants to differentiate save memory for some VMs and not for other ones.... HIH other ones, Gianluca