[Users] ovirt 3.1 and live snapshots

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Winfried de Heiden" <wdh at dds.nl>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 9:09:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] ovirt 3.1 and live snapshots
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Live snapshots is support from qemu 1.1. However, qemu 1.1 is not
> included in Fedora 17 or Ovirt-node.
> 
> Besides the Virt-preview repo, when is qemu 1.1 expected?
> Effectively,
> there is still no live snapshot support in Ovirt 3.1

The oVirt 3.1 management platform supports live snapshots if you have a qemu release that does.

Fedora doesn't update it's qemu mid-release - so you have 3 choices
- use the virt-preview repo
- wait for F18
- compile your own.




> 
> Winfried
> 
> 
> Op 10-08-12 14:00, Andrew Cathrow schreef:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Shu Ming" <shuming at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >> To: "Winfried de Heiden" <wdh at dds.nl>
> >> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> >> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 6:02:18 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [Users] ovirt 3.1 and live snapshots
> >>
> >> I am afraid you should upgrade qemu manually to 1.1 at least.
> > Use the virt-preview repository here
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository
> >
> >
> >> On 2012-8-10 17:41, Winfried de Heiden wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> As mentioned in the oVirt 3.1 release notes:
> >>>
> >>> "Live snapshotting of virtual machines running on virtualization
> >>> hosts
> >>> with QEMU 1.1 or higher is now supported".
> >>>
> >>> What about Fedora 17? The Fedora version is still at 1.01:
> >>>
> >>> rpm -qi qemu-system-x86
> >>> Name        : qemu-system-x86
> >>> Epoch       : 2
> >>> Version     : 1.0.1
> >>> Release     : 1.fc17
> >>> Architecture: x86_64
> >>> Install Date: vr 10 aug 2012 11:33:59 CEST
> >>> Group       : Development/Tools
> >>> Size        : 13594005
> >>> License     : GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and BSD
> >>> Signature   : RSA/SHA256, ma 30 jul 2012 20:05:08 CEST, Key ID
> >>> 50e94c991aca3465
> >>> Source RPM  : qemu-1.0.1-1.fc17.src.rpm
> >>> Build Date  : ma 30 jul 2012 03:34:33 CEST
> >>> Build Host  : x86-01.phx2.fedoraproject.org
> >>> Relocations : (not relocatable)
> >>> Packager    : Fedora Project
> >>> Vendor      : Fedora Project
> >>> URL         : http://www.qemu.org/
> >>> Summary     : QEMU system emulator for x86
> >>>
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> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> ---
> >> Shu Ming
> >> Open Virtualization Engineerning; CSTL, IBM Corp.
> >> Tel: 86-10-82451626  Tieline: 9051626 E-mail: shuming at cn.ibm.com
> >> or
> >> shuming at linux.vnet.ibm.com
> >> Address: 3/F Ring Building, ZhongGuanCun Software Park, Haidian
> >> District, Beijing 100193, PRC
> >>
> >>
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