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A future patch will make it impossible to remove a domain if it would leave behind any libvirt-tracked metadata about snapshots, since stale metadata interferes with a new domain by the same name. But requiring snaphot contents to be deleted before removing a domain is harsh; with qemu, qemu-img can still make use of the contents after the libvirt domain is gone. Therefore, we need an option to get rid of libvirt tracking information, but not the actual contents. For hypervisors that do not track any metadata in libvirt, the implementation is trivial; all remaining hypervisors (really, just qemu) will be dealt with separately. * include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_DELETE_METADATA_ONLY): New flag. * src/libvirt.c (virDomainSnapshotDelete): Document it. * src/esx/esx_driver.c (esxDomainSnapshotDelete): Trivially supported when there is no libvirt metadata. * src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c (vboxDomainSnapshotDelete): Likewise.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>