Re: [ovirt-users] Backup solution using the API

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.

Regards Soeren From: Gianluca Cecchi [mailto:gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com] 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" <alitke@redhat.com<mailto:alitke@redhat.com>> 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 > Users@ovirt.org<mailto:Users@ovirt.org> > 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