How to take a snapshot of Virtual Machine through WebUI??

[Capt.Insano]

In the old VM Manager there was the ability to take a snapshot of a Virtual Machine, has this ability not been carried over when VM Manager was merged into core unRAID? OR... am I going blind and not seeing it.

 

I cannot find it anywhere and I have a few Virtual Machines that I would like to save copies of incase anything should happen to them.

 

In the case it was not been carried forward into core unRAID, any chance of getting it back?

 

Thanks,

 

The Capt

 

 

[Capt.Insano]

Incase anyone is wondering what I am talking about; this is a screenshot I pulled off the now depreciated VMManager thread:

 

 

You can see the option for snapshots (new snapshot(plus sign)/revert to snapshot/delete snapshot) in the options under the stopped ubuntu VM.

 

Was a great idea for when you wanted to test major changes to a VM that you may later regret or to create backups of virgin systems when perfectly set up.

 

 

Anyway great job all, current VM-Manager is going from strength to strength and I would love to see snapshots return!!

 

 

[BRiT]

This feature was too unstable for Limetech to feel comfortable to release it so they removed it but stated it will return when they can get it working better sometime in the future.

[Capt.Insano]

Thanks BRiT,

 

Is this a publicly reported decision by LT or do you have inside info? (I don't remember it being listed in any release notes)

 

Hopefully it will return soon!!

 

The Capt.

[BRiT]

Thanks BRiT,

 

Is this a publicly reported decision by LT or do you have inside info? (I don't remember it being listed in any release notes)

 

Hopefully it will return soon!!

 

The Capt.

 

Yes, they just posted it (again?) today in the forums in one of the threads. I dont know if its explicitly called out in any release notes or if its only been forum discussions.

[BRiT]

Here's some posts about it --

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=39948.msg381392#msg381392

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=38764.msg360674#msg360674

 

 

 

 

[dmacias]

In my tests with the old vm manager which used libvirt for snapshots, it was unstable. Sometimes snapshots wouldn't show up later and would lead to image size ballooning with unknown snapshots. Especially with the vm running and several gigs of ram.

 

You can try qemu-img from the command line as I had better luck with that and planned to move the manager in that direction. Just run qemu-img --help from the command line for snapshot cli options.

[Capt.Insano]

@BRiT & @dmacias

 

Thanks a million for the info folks!!

 

I will try qemu-img from the commandline.

 

Still holding out hope that we will see it return in the webUI in the future in some fixed form!