Hey Trey, just a quick update. If you add the CR repo for CentOS 6.0 you will get an updated RPM which solves the problem for me. - Jason On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 01:43, Trey Dockendorf <treydock at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Jason Brian Friedrich > <mail at friedrich.org.uk> wrote: >> >> System: CentOS Linux release 6.0 (final) >> Kernel: 2.6.32-71.23.1.el6.x86_64 >> KVM: QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.1 (qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2) >> Libvirt: ibvirtd (libvirt) 0.8.1 >> >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> I only recently subscribed to this list and hope you can shed some >> light on the following error. I created a VM on my Centos 6 KVM >> machine, used a qcow2 image and wanted to create a snapshot via 'virsh >> snapshot-create' command: >> >> // >> [root at kvmhost ~]# virsh snapshot-create server01 >> error: internal error unable to execute QEMU command 'savevm': The >> command savevm has not been found >> \\ >> >> I googled before the post, found some [0] threads [1], but could not >> find an answer how to solve the problem. If the kvm-qemu lacks the >> support of a savevm monitor, how can I add one? Do I need to recompile >> kvm-qemu with special flags or is simply a RPM package or a module >> missing? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> - Jason >> >> >> [0] http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2011-July/002557.html >> [1] >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2011-August/msg00011.html >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-virt mailing list >> CentOS-virt at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > I ran into this too. Unfortunately I haven't found a solution either, but > here's an interesting bug report that shows this effects all the way up to > Fedora 15, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727709. The one fix > mentioned 89241fe0, I've actually patched into the CentOS libvirt RPM, but > from testing it doesn't seem to be enough. I now can run the snapshot-create > command without error, but nothing appears to happen. I've tested creating > files, taking a snapshot, deleting files and reverting and nothing comes > back or changes. Also the qcow2 images don't change at all during this time > either. I'm working on applying the other commits mentioned in Comment #4, > but am running into problems since most of those commits are 0.9.0+ and I'm > patching CentOS's 0.8.1. > I'd love to know if anyone actually has snapshots working in CentOS 5 or 6. > This is kind of a critical feature to the entire virtualization process. > - Trey > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > >