[Users] oVirt 3.3.3 RC EL6 Live Snapshot

[Dafna Ron]

can you please upload full engine, vdsm, libvirt and vm's qemu logs?

On 02/02/2014 02:08 AM, Steve Dainard wrote:
> I have two CentOS 6.5 Ovirt hosts (ovirt001, ovirt002)
>
> I've installed the applicable qemu-kvm-rhev packages from this site: 
> http://www.dreyou.org/ovirt/vdsm32/Packages/ on ovirt002.
>
> On ovirt001 if I take a live snapshot:
>
> Snapshot 'test qemu-kvm' creation for VM 'snapshot-test' was initiated 
> by admin at internal.
> The VM is paused
> Failed to create live snapshot 'test qemu-kvm' for VM 'snapshot-test'. 
> VM restart is recommended.
> Failed to complete snapshot 'test qemu-kvm' creation for VM 
> 'snapshot-test'.
> The VM is then started, and the status for the snapshot changes to OK.
>
> On ovirt002 (with the packages from dreyou) I don't get any messages 
> about a snapshot failing, but my VM is still paused to complete the 
> snapshot. Is there something else other than the qemu-kvm-rhev 
> packages that would enable this functionality?
>
> I've looked for some information on when the packages would be built 
> as required in the CentOS repos, but I don't see anything definitive.
>
> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-December/019126.html Looks 
> like one of the maintainers is waiting for someone to tell him what 
> flags need to be set.
>
> Also, another thread here: 
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.ovirt.arch/1618 same 
> maintainer, mentioning that he hasn't seen anything in the bug tracker.
>
> There is a bug here: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1009100 that seems to have 
> ended in finding a way for qemu to expose whether it supports live 
> snapshots, rather than figuring out how to get the CentOS team the 
> info they need to build the packages with the proper flags set.
>
> I have bcc'd both dreyou (packaged the qemu-kvm-rhev packages listed 
> above) and Russ (CentOS maintainer mentioned in the other threads) if 
> they wish to chime in and perhaps collaborate on which flags, if any, 
> should be set for the qemu-kvm builds so we can get a CentOS bug 
> report going and hammer this out.
>
> Thanks everyone.
>
> **crosses fingers and hopes for live snapshots soon**
>
>
>
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> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Steve Dainard <sdainard at miovision.com 
> <mailto:sdainard at miovision.com>> wrote:
>
>
>         How would you developers, speaking for the oVirt-community,
>         propose to
>         solve this for CentOS _now_ ?
>
>         I would imagine that the easiest way is that you build and
>         host this one
>         package(qemu-kvm-rhev), since you´ve basically already have
>         the source
>         and recipe (since you´re already providing it for RHEV
>         anyway). Then,
>         once that´s in place, it´s more a question of where to host the
>         packages, in what repository. Be it your own, or some other
>         repo set up
>         for the SIG.
>
>         This is my view, how I as a user view this issue.
>
>
>
>     I think this is a pretty valid view.
>
>     What would it take to get the correct qemu package hosted in the
>     ovirt repo?
>
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Dafna Ron