Bug 744071 - virsh snapshot-edit can't edit disk snapshots
Summary: virsh snapshot-edit can't edit disk snapshots
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libvirt
Version: 6.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Eric Blake
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Depends On: 638510
Blocks: 747120
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Reported: 2011-10-06 21:45 UTC by Eric Blake
Modified: 2011-12-06 11:37 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libvirt-0.9.4-16.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-12-06 11:37:10 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:1513 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE libvirt bug fix and enhancement update 2011-12-06 01:23:30 UTC

Description Eric Blake 2011-10-06 21:45:47 UTC
Description of problem:
Creating a disk snapshot with <disks> fails if VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_DISK_ONLY was not specified, although this should not be required if VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_REDEFINE is present.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-0.9.4-14.el6

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. virsh start dom
2. virsh snapshot-create-as dom --disk-only snap
3. virsh snapshot-edit dom snap # try adding <description>
  
Actual results:
error: Failed to update snap
error: argument unsupported: unable to handle disk requests in snapshot

Expected results:
While --disk-only is important for allowing <disks> when creating a new snapshot, modifying an existing snapshot should be smart enough to realize that it already existed with disks, and thus not error out.

This needs to be fixed in both the qemu driver (avoid erroring out on redefine) and in virsh (communicating to 0.9.5 or 0.9.6 will encounter qemu that errors out, so virsh must scrape the xml and decide whether to add the disk-only flag).

Additional info:
Introduced by the resolution to bug 638510

Comment 1 Eric Blake 2011-10-06 23:19:54 UTC
Upstream patches proposed:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-October/msg00196.html

Comment 5 weizhang 2011-10-08 06:41:02 UTC
verify pass on
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.195.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-206.el6.x86_64
libvirt-0.9.4-16.el6.x86_64


# virsh snapshot-edit qcow2 snap
Snapshot snap edited.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 11:37:10 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1513.html


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