From 2fe7622d19d41292c12c48370e110e334008c38a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Hrdina Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 15:15:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] virsh: man: update snapshot-revert description MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit We've changed the behavior of this API that from now on it will always restart the VM process and we are no longer able to revert to snapshots created by libvirt older then 0.9.5. Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko --- docs/manpages/virsh.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/manpages/virsh.rst b/docs/manpages/virsh.rst index 5f5ccfeafe..39636a565e 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/virsh.rst +++ b/docs/manpages/virsh.rst @@ -7293,6 +7293,10 @@ no vm state leaves the domain in an inactive state. Passing either the transient domains cannot be inactive, it is required to use one of these flags when reverting to a disk snapshot of a transient domain. +Since libvirt 7.10.0 the VM process is always restarted so the following +paragraph is no longer valid. If the snapshot metadata lacks the full +VM XML it's no longer possible to revert to such snapshot. + There are a number of cases where a snapshot revert involves extra risk, which requires the use of *--force* to proceed: