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| author | Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> | 2014-07-11 10:20:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> | 2014-07-14 09:26:26 +0200 |
| commit | 500f80a595216d38bbd7e462f99e2a7febc988de (patch) | |
| tree | a5a89f5a79afb245552de3ba368c293d58c07987 /tools | |
| parent | 270969c4ddee339cfd3b01805603e034fdc875d1 (diff) | |
| download | libvirt-500f80a595216d38bbd7e462f99e2a7febc988de.tar.gz | |
doc: Document that snapshot name of block-backed disk isn't autogenerated
Libvirt generates external snapshot target file names for file backed
storage but not for block backed storage. Document the limitation.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032363
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/virsh.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod index a5e8406e12..5da71c3f34 100644 --- a/tools/virsh.pod +++ b/tools/virsh.pod @@ -3219,7 +3219,9 @@ The I<--diskspec> option can be used to control how I<--disk-only> and external checkpoints create external files. This option can occur multiple times, according to the number of <disk> elements in the domain xml. Each <diskspec> is in the -form B<disk[,snapshot=type][,driver=type][,file=name]>. To include a +form B<disk[,snapshot=type][,driver=type][,file=name]>. A I<diskspec> +must be provided for disks backed by block devices as libvirt doesn't +auto-generate file names for those. To include a literal comma in B<disk> or in B<file=name>, escape it with a second comma. A literal I<--diskspec> must precede each B<diskspec> unless all three of I<domain>, I<name>, and I<description> are also present. |