[Users] Unable to delete a snapshot

[Milan Dlauhy]

On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 10:18 +0100, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
> Le 07/01/2014 09:57, Nicolas Ecarnot a écrit :
> > Le 07/01/2014 09:02, Nicolas Ecarnot a écrit :
> >> http://list-archives.org/2013/10/25/users-ovirt-org/vm-snapshot-delete-failed-iscsi-domain/f/6837397684
> >>

I've sent two mails altogether - here's the other one:
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-November/017557.html.

In December I upgraded to Ovirt 3.3.2. After the upgrade snapshots
works, but I still have a few VMs with broken snapshots. I don't need
these VMs, but I'm keeping them to eventually try to repair them (when
someone helps and tells me how).



> >> [...]
> >> In the URL I provided above, the op is able to lvchange -aey the device.
> >> In my case, though a lvmdiskscan + a lvs is showing me the LV, there is
> >> not device in /dev/{the proper VG}/{my missing LV}.
> >
> > Although I couldn't see the device in /dev, activating it with lvchange
> > -aey and providing the complete path lead to a successful activation of
> > the LV.
> >
> > Then, like in the URL above, I was able to run the VM manually from the
> > host with a simple qemu-kvm.
> >
> > But when trying to run it from oVirt, I still get the same errors, and
> > the LV gets disabled.
> >
> > What would be the best way now?
> >
> 
> I have to add that in this precise case, recovering the VM is way more 
> important than to recover the snapshot, that I can live without.
> 

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