[GitHub] [cloudstack] melnik13 edited a comment on issue #3194: Suspending a VM before snapshot deletion (see PR #3193)

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melnik13 edited a comment on issue #3194: Suspending a VM before snapshot deletion (see PR #3193)
URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/3194#issuecomment-497418473
 
 
   @Slair1 
   > Here is a link to an article talking about not using qemu-img to take snapshots of running VMs (there are lots of other posts/pages agreeing).
   > https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-create-create-snapshot-in-linux-kvm-vmdomain/
   > Should we be suspending the VM before taking the snapshot? Is suspending enough to prevent corruption or is it just "safer"? We are just very gun shy with snapshots on KVM after experiencing corruption on several VMs...
   
   You're absolutely right, but ACS do not use qemu-img to create a snapshot of a running instance. It runs qemu-img only if the instance is stopped, but for the running one it calls libvirt to perform the job (and libvirt always suspends the VM).
   
   The problem occurs when ACS is deleting the snapshot from the running instance's volume. When the deletion procedure is being performed, libvirt doesn't suspend an instance (well, the instance is being frozen somehow, but `virsh list` still shows it as running).
   
   As I think, it's not a bug of ACS, as it seems to be a bug of libvirt or QEMU/KVM (by the way, users of Proxmox are facing these issues too), but our workaround (manually suspending the instance before the snapshot deletion) could help us to outflank the problem.
   
   Thanks.
   
   

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