How to delete external snapshots in RHEL 8

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Issue

  • A VM running in a RHEL 8 KVM hypervisor has several external snapshots.
  • We want to delete the snapshots, but virsh snapshot-delete says that deleting external disk snapshots is not supported.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.x
  • KVM Virtual Machine with external snapshots

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