Description of problem: 1. Ceated a new domain using a qcow2 img file as the storage, installed F15 on it, shut it down. 2. Created a snaphshot using virsh snapshot-create 3. Started the domain and updated its packages, shut it down. 4. Created a 2nd snapshot. When I run virsh snapshot-revert on the domain I get no output from virsh and it returns quickly. Nothing in /var/log/messages either. I start the domain and it has not reverted the disk. virsh snapshot-list does list the snapshots. If I use qemu-img it lists the disk snapshots and I am able to use qemu-img snapshot -a X to switch snapshots successfully.
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This is a known issue, due to a change in qemu behavior, and fixed in libvirt version 0.9.5 and later. However, the fix is rather invasive, and I'm not sure it is feasible to backport the appropriate patch and all prerequisites into F15; at this point, I'd rather close this as fixed in F16 and suggest that you upgrade. commit 25fb3ef1e1b9927c8f31285f4404620317b7f7db Author: Eric Blake <eblake> Date: Fri Aug 26 16:17:41 2011 -0600 snapshot: properly revert qemu to offline snapshots Commit 5e47785 broke reverts to offline system checkpoint snapshots with older qemu, since there is no longer any code path to use qemu -loadvm on next boot. Meanwhile, reverts to offline system checkpoints have been broken for newer qemu, both before and after that commit, since -loadvm no longer works to revert to disk state without accompanying vm state. Fix both of these by using qemu-img to revert disk state.