In this short recipe, we are going to see examples on how to obtain more information on existing virtual machine snapshots.
For this recipe, we are going to need the following:
- A libvirt host with the QEMU toolset
- The snapshots we created in the Creating snapshots recipe
To inspect a snapshot, run the following commands:
- List all available snapshots for the specified KVM instance:
root@kvm:~# virsh snapshot-list kvm1 Name Creation Time State ------------------------------------------------------------ 1492797458 2017-04-21 17:57:38 +0000 running kvm1_ext_snapshot 2017-04-21 18:08:49 +0000 disk-snapshot root@kvm:~#
- Get information about the running snapshot:
root@kvm:~# virsh snapshot-info kvm1 --snapshotname 1492797458 Name: 1492797458 Domain: kvm1 Current: no State: running Location: internal Parent: - Children: 1 Descendants: 1 Metadata: yes root@kvm:~#
- Get information about the disk snapshot:
root@kvm...