Hi Derek, I do not think we support snapshots of the hosted engine VM at the moment. There would be no way to restore from snapshot anyway in case of failed upgrade (no engine would be running). Please use the standard backup/restore procedures for the engine: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-virtualization/4.0/pag... Best regards -- Martin Sivak SLA / oVirt On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 3:58 AM, Derek Atkins <derek(a)ihtfp.com&gt; wrote: > I'm running ovirt 4.0.4 on a single-host with (of course) self-hosted > engine. > > Ovirt seems to assume in many cases that there are multiple hosts around > so you can manipulate one host while the engine is running on another, > etc. > > But in the single-host case.... how do you take a snapshot of the hosted > engine? When I click on Virtual Machines -> HostedEngine and then below > click on Snapshots and then Create, I get an error: > > HostedEngine > * Cannot create Snapshot. This VM is not managed by the engine. > > So... How can one snapshot the engine (e.g. prior to updating it)? > > -derek > > -- > Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 > derek(a)ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com > Computer and Internet Security Consultant > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users