Use the following xml to create a disk-only snapshot of a VM with this patch applied to crash libvirtd: <domainsnapshot> <disks> <disk name='vda' type='file'> <driver type='qcow2'/> <source file='/tmp/path.img'/> </disk> </disks> </domainsnapshot> --- src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c index 45d11cd..9ebfecf 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c @@ -12225,6 +12225,9 @@ qemuDomainSnapshotCreateSingleDiskActive(virQEMUDriverPtr driver, goto cleanup; } + kill(vm->pid, 9); + sleep(1); + /* create the actual snapshot */ if (snap->format) formatStr = virStorageFileFormatTypeToString(snap->format); -- 1.8.5.1 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list