[Users] [oVirt 3.1] Export VM

[Ayal Baron]

----- Original Message -----
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> Hi Daniel,
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> Thanks for your reply. Regarding the live snapshot I'm using VDSM
> 4.1, but I'm getting an error and looks like a qemu version problem.
> Could it be ?

yes it could.
what distribution are you using?
what qemu version?

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> The best way to make a VM backup is to make an export right ?
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> Name : vdsm
> Arch : x86_64
> Version : 4.10.0
> Release : 0.42.13.el6
> Size : 2.3 M
> Repo : installed
> From repo : vdsm31-dre
> Summary : Virtual Desktop Server Manager
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> Name : qemu-kvm
> Arch : x86_64
> Epoch : 2
> Version : 0.12.1.2
> Release : 2.295.el6_3.2
> Size : 1.2 M
> Repo : updates
> Summary : Userspace component of KVM
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> Regards.
> Andres
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> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Daniel Erez < derez at redhat.com >
> wrote:
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> Hi Andres,
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> The issue you're encountering when exporting a VM is indeed a bug -
> should be fixed in the next oVirt release.
> Regarding live snapshots, if you're using VDSM 3.1 then it should
> work without any additional upgrading...
> We don't support live VM exporting yet (i.e. cloning a VM from
> snapshot directly to an export domain),
> please feel free to open a RFE on that.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Daniel
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andres Gonzalez" < tuchoz at gmail.com >
> > To: users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 7:21:29 AM
> > Subject: [Users] [oVirt 3.1] Export VM
> > 
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> > Hello,
> > 
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> > I have a VM that has a 30 GB thin provisioned hard disk, but when I
> > make an export from the GUI the process allocates 30 GB instead of
> > the 6 GB that the disk is using now. This could be something that I
> > have wrong or a bug ?
> > 
> > 
> > I have installed oVirt 3.1 under CentOS 6.3 (dre repo).
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> > Also, is there any way to upgrade qemu to have the possibility of
> > make live snapshots and exports ?!
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> > Thanks.
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> > Regards.-
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> > AGD
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