14.4. Reverting to a virtual machine snapshot by using the command line

Prerequisites

• A snapshot of the VM is available, which you have previously created in the web console or by using the command line.
• Optional: You have created a snapshot of the current state of the VM. If you revert to a previous snapshot without saving the current state, changes performed on the VM since the last snapshot will be lost.

Procedure

• Use the virsh snapshot-revert utility and specify the name of the VM and the name of the snapshot to which you want to revert. For example, the following command reverts the Testguest2 VM to the clean-install snapshot.

  # virsh snapshot-revert Testguest2 clean-install
  
  Domain snapshot clean-install reverted

Verification

• Display the currently active snapshot for the reverted VM:

  # virsh snapshot-current Testguest2 --name
  
  clean-install