On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 05:49:36PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: > On 23.03.2015 16:02, Fiorenza Meini wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm running KVM under Openstack . > > > > When I give virsh list command, I see some VM in NON persistent state. > > What does it mean? How can I move it to a persisten state ? > > You can do that by running: > > virsh dumpxml $dom > dom.xml && virsh define dom.xml > > > > > > I found that I cannot make a snapshot, from Openstack , of a machine > > which is in a NON PERSISTENT state. > > However, I don't think it's a good idea to go behind OpenStack's back > and change things. Michal is totally right, it gets really messy. If you have a live or offline Nova instance, and you're running current OpenStack stable release (e.g. 'Juno'). You can trivially make a snapshot: $ nova image-create vm snap1-of-vm --poll And, can boot instances off based on it: $ nova boot --flavor 1 --key_name oskey1 --image snap1-of-vm newvm -- /kashyap _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users