For shutoff VMs we don't have the storage source backing chain populated so it will fail this check and error out. Move it to part that is done only when VM is running. Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c b/src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c index 7207b5879a..7aa4195f04 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c @@ -2331,18 +2331,6 @@ qemuSnapshotDeleteExternalPrepare(virDomainObj *vm, if (!data->domDisk) return -1; - data->diskSrc = virStorageSourceChainLookupBySource(data->domDisk->src, - data->snapDisk->src, - &data->prevDiskSrc); - if (!data->diskSrc) - return -1; - - if (!virStorageSourceIsSameLocation(data->diskSrc, data->snapDisk->src)) { - virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED, "%s", - _("VM disk source and snapshot disk source are not the same")); - return -1; - } - data->parentDomDisk = virDomainDiskByTarget(snapdef->parent.dom, data->snapDisk->name); if (!data->parentDomDisk) { @@ -2353,6 +2341,18 @@ qemuSnapshotDeleteExternalPrepare(virDomainObj *vm, } if (virDomainObjIsActive(vm)) { + data->diskSrc = virStorageSourceChainLookupBySource(data->domDisk->src, + data->snapDisk->src, + &data->prevDiskSrc); + if (!data->diskSrc) + return -1; + + if (!virStorageSourceIsSameLocation(data->diskSrc, data->snapDisk->src)) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED, "%s", + _("VM disk source and snapshot disk source are not the same")); + return -1; + } + data->parentDiskSrc = data->diskSrc->backingStore; if (!virStorageSourceIsBacking(data->parentDiskSrc)) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED, "%s", -- 2.39.2