fre 2016-01-15 klockan 12:23 +0800 skrev Colin Coe: We take a snapshot just after a VM creation, just to have a point of origin to roll back to in case of total f-up:) Looks like this: while api.vms.get(VM_NAME).snapshots.list()[1].get_snapshot_status() == 'locked': In our case, we only have one snapshot at that time though, since the VM has just been created. Your code would have to be more complex to find the most recent one, I´d think. HTH /K

Hi again all I've just noticed that the snapshot status appears not to update. Consider the code below: --- api.vms.get(VM_NAME).snapshots.add(params.Snapshot(description=SNAPSHOT_NAME, vm=api.vms.get(VM_NAME), persist_memorystate=True)) # Wait for snapshot to finish snap = api.vms.get(name=VM_NAME).snapshots.list()[-1] while (snap.get_snapshot_status() == 'locked'): print "Waiting for snapshot creation to finish (status is %s)" % snap.get_snapshot_status() --- What I find is that even though the WebUI reports the snapshot is created, snap.get_snapshot_status() still reports 'locked'. I'm using RHEV 3.5.7 with RHEL-H 7.1 hosts with vdsm-4.16.30-1.el7ev.x86_64. Am I misunderstanding how this works or have I found a bug? Thanks On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Juan Hernández <jhernand(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

Noticed that the code I wrote turned out a little wonky with a really misplaced "while" after the "snap" variable but I hope you understand what I was trying to get at. #copy-paste fail :) /K ________________________________ Från: users-bounces(a)ovirt.org <users-bounces(a)ovirt.org&gt; för Karli Sjöberg <karli.sjoberg(a)slu.se&gt; Skickat: den 16 januari 2016 10:13 Till: Colin Coe; Juan Hernández Kopia: Users(a)ovirt.org Ämne: Re: [ovirt-users] Python API question Hi Colin, I´ve also noticed that behaviour, you need to redefine the variable in the loop as well, seems that "snap == 'locked'" forever otherwise: snap = api.vms.get(name=VM_NAME).snapshots.list()[-1] while (snap.get_snapshot_status() == 'locked'): print "Waiting for snapshot creation to finish (status is %s)" % snap.get_snapshot_status() snap = api.vms.get(name=VM_NAME).snapshots.list()[-1] while (snap.get_snapshot_status() == 'locked'): time.sleep(1) /K ________________________________ Från: users-bounces(a)ovirt.org <users-bounces(a)ovirt.org&gt; för Colin Coe <colin.coe(a)gmail.com&gt; Skickat: den 16 januari 2016 06:07 Till: Juan Hernández Kopia: Users(a)ovirt.org Ämne: Re: [ovirt-users] Python API question Hi again all I've just noticed that the snapshot status appears not to update. Consider the code below: --- api.vms.get(VM_NAME).snapshots.add(params.Snapshot(description=SNAPSHOT_NAME, vm=api.vms.get(VM_NAME), persist_memorystate=True)) # Wait for snapshot to finish snap = api.vms.get(name=VM_NAME).snapshots.list()[-1] while (snap.get_snapshot_status() == 'locked'): print "Waiting for snapshot creation to finish (status is %s)" % snap.get_snapshot_status() --- What I find is that even though the WebUI reports the snapshot is created, snap.get_snapshot_status() still reports 'locked'. I'm using RHEV 3.5.7 with RHEL-H 7.1 hosts with vdsm-4.16.30-1.el7ev.x86_64. Am I misunderstanding how this works or have I found a bug? Thanks On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Juan Hernández <jhernand@redhat.com<mailto:jhernand@redhat.com>> wrote: On 01/15/2016 05:23 AM, Colin Coe wrote: The more reliable way to wait till the snapshot is effectively deleted is just to try to get it, and finish when the result is "None": snapshot.delete() while vm.snapshots.get(id=snapshot.get_id()) is not None: sleep(1) Alternatively you can use the return of the delete operation. It returns an "Action" object, that contains a reference to the job that was started to delete the snapshot. The XML representation looks like this: <action> <job href="/api/jobs/f6e4279a-a8e1-44a3-86db-d53336b0eb5a" id="f6e4279a-a8e1-44a3-86db-d53336b0eb5a"/> <status> <state>complete</state> </status> </action> As you can see that contains a link to the job. With the Python SDK you can use it as follows: # Get the id of the job: action = snapshot.delete() job_id = action.get_job().get_id() # Wait till the job is finished: while api.jobs.get(id=job_id).get_status().get_state() != 'FINISHED': time.sleep(1) This is less reliable, because actions may or may not return a job, and that depends on how the action is implemented in the engine, and there is no backwards compatibility guarantee for that. A minor change in the engine may result in the job not being returned. So my suggestion is to use the simple loop to check if the snapshot exists. -- Dirección Comercial: C/Jose Bardasano Baos, 9, Edif. Gorbea 3, planta 3ºD, 28016 Madrid, Spain Inscrita en el Reg. Mercantil de Madrid - C.I.F. B82657941 - Red Hat S.L.