On 03/23/2017 02:40 PM, Marcin Kruk wrote: The ovirt-shell tools is deprecated since version 4.0 of oVirt, and will be removed in version 4.2. I suggest that you avoid using it, and consider using the Ansible modules: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list_of_cloud_modules.html#ovirt Or one of the SDKs: Python: https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-sdk Ruby: https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-sdk-ruby Java: https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-sdk-java In particular these SDK examples may be of interest: https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-sdk/blob/master/sdk/examples/add_vm... https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-sdk/blob/master/sdk/examples/clone_... If you still want to use ovirt-shell, then it should be something like this: add snapshot --parent-vm-name myvm --description mysnap That will return the snapshot data, including the id, take note of it, and then: add vm --name mynewvm --snapshots-snapshot "snapshot.id=the_id_of_the_snapshot" --cluster-name mycluster