Bug 1148932

Summary:	Forbid using same file as external snapshot file for disks and memory
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Shanzhi Yu <shyu>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version:	7.1	CC:	dyuan, jdenemar, mzhan, rbalakri, yanyang
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Description Shanzhi Yu 2014-10-02 16:43:18 UTC

Description of problem:

Forbid using same file as external snapshot file for disks and memory

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libvirt-1.2.8-4.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:

1. prepare a running domain

2. Create external system checkpoint snapshot with same file for disks and memory
# virsh snapshot-create-as rhel7-i ss --diskspec vda,file=/tmp/s1 --memspec file=/tmp/s1 
Domain snapshot ss created

3.

Actual results:


Expected results:

error: unsupported configuration: external snapshot file for disks should not be same with external snapshot file for memory


Additional info:

Comment 1 Jiri Denemark 2014-10-06 15:16:31 UTC

There's a lot of ways to specify the same file for both diskcpec and memspec and I don't think it's worth handling them. After all, the command just does what the user asked for...