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  1. Bug #1767997
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Comment 4 for bug 1767997

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Brian Candler (b-candler) wrote : Re: virt-manager destroys all volumes in libvirt zfs pool

And using strace on libvirtd, I see it's running this:

[pid 5806] execve("/sbin/zpool", ["/sbin/zpool", "get", "-Hp", "health,size,free,allocated", "zfs/images"], 0x7fffedc8b6c8 /* 6 vars */) = 0

Which is not a valid command:

root@beaver:~# /sbin/zpool get -Hp health,size,free,allocated zfs/images
cannot open 'zfs/images': invalid character '/' in pool name

Right. It seems that this part of libvirt thinks that it has full reign over a zfs *pool*, whereas everything else is happy to create child datasets of an existing *dataset*

Furthermore: when the zpool command fails, libvirt is still happy to zap all the existing defined libvirt volumes (or it has already done so).