The qemu implementation requires that the VM associated with the checkpoint is running when checking the size. Mention this possibility with the flag. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/libvirt-domain-checkpoint.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/libvirt-domain-checkpoint.c b/src/libvirt-domain-checkpoint.c index 8a7b55dcd2..e9af8e4cf0 100644 --- a/src/libvirt-domain-checkpoint.c +++ b/src/libvirt-domain-checkpoint.c @@ -192,7 +192,9 @@ virDomainCheckpointCreateXML(virDomainPtr domain, * attribute that shows an estimate of the current size in bytes that * have been dirtied between the time the checkpoint was created and the * current point in time. Note that updating the size may be expensive and - * data will be inaccurate once guest OS writes to the disk. + * data will be inaccurate once guest OS writes to the disk. Also note that + * hypervisors may require that the domain associated with @checkpoint is + * running when VIR_DOMAIN_CHECKPOINT_XML_SIZE is used. * * Returns a 0 terminated UTF-8 encoded XML instance or NULL in case * of error. The caller must free() the returned value. -- 2.26.2
