On 27/01/18 14:45, OmegaPhil wrote: > On 27/01/18 14:34, Pavel Hrdina wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 01:04:32PM +0000, OmegaPhil wrote: >>> Using Virtual Machine Manager 1.4.3 here on Devuan Ascii with libvirt0 >>> 3.0.0-4+deb9u1. I have a collection of VMs on this machine (so single >>> host, no migrations, no shared storage etc etc) that are stored in a >>> storage pool outside of the root volume (since the root volume is mostly >>> dedicated to the OS) - so not '/var/lib/libvirt/images'. >>> >>> The OS volume is running out of space, and I found that snapshots were >>> being stored separately from the VMs, at '/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save' - >>> is there a way for me to configure where snapshots end up, and >>> preferably in the same storage location as the VMs? >>> >>> '/etc/libvirt/storage' seems to only store configuration for the storage >>> pools that host the VMs. >>> >>> Thanks for any help >> >> Hi, >> >> So you are not probably talking about snapshot but about suspending the >> guests. Currently virt-manager uses internal snapshots and it works >> only for qcow2 disk images, the snapshot itself is stored inside that >> disk image. >> >> The path "/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save" is used for "saving" the virtual >> machine. This is handled by libvirt, virt-manager only controls >> libvirt, and unfortunately there is no way how to change the default >> path. >> >> The only suggestion is that you can mount different volume under that >> path to not use the root one. >> >> Pavel > > > Ah apologies, confused snapshotting and saving. Yes, I save VMs and > expect any produced files to end up on the VM's storage pool basically > (this is also important for backing up the VM, that everything required > is in the same place). > > Thanks, I'll look into making a feature request for libvirt a bit later. > Yes, perhaps mount bind trickery etc could be used as a last resort (but > its easier just to clear up some space at this point). > > > > > _______________________________________________ > virt-tools-list mailing list > virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list Have just had a response on my libvirt feature request for this (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1539311#c1) - it sounds like a feature request for virt-manager? Should I go ahead and make that feature request?
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