update comments and exception related to kvm.snapshot.enabled setting

server/src/main/java/com/cloud/storage/snapshot/SnapshotManager.java

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ public interface SnapshotManager extends Configurable {
     public static final ConfigKey<Boolean> VmStorageSnapshotKvm = new ConfigKey<>(Boolean.class, "kvm.vmstoragesnapshot.enabled", "Snapshots", "true", "For live snapshot of virtual machine instance on KVM hypervisor without memory. Requires qemu version 1.6+ (on NFS or Local file system) and qemu-guest-agent installed on guest VM", true, ConfigKey.Scope.Global, null);
 
     ConfigKey<Boolean> KVMSnapshotEnabled = new ConfigKey<>(Boolean.class, "kvm.snapshot.enabled", "Snapshots", "true", "Whether volume snapshot is enabled on running instances " +
-            "on a KVM hosts", false, ConfigKey.Scope.Global, null);
+            "on KVM hosts", false, ConfigKey.Scope.Global, null);
 
     ConfigKey<Boolean> kvmIncrementalSnapshot = new ConfigKey<>(Boolean.class, "kvm.incremental.snapshot", "Snapshots", "false", "Whether differential snapshots are enabled for" +
             " KVM or not. When this is enabled, all KVM snapshots will be incremental. Bear in mind that it will generate a new full snapshot when the snapshot chain reaches the limit defined in snapshot.delta.max.", true, ConfigKey.Scope.Cluster, null);

server/src/main/java/com/cloud/storage/snapshot/SnapshotManagerImpl.java

@@ -1528,13 +1528,13 @@ private Type getSnapshotType(IntervalType intvType) {
         return null;
     }
 
-    private boolean hostSupportsSnapsthotForVolume(HostVO host, VolumeInfo volume, boolean isFromVmSnapshot) {
+    private boolean hostSupportsSnapshotForVolume(HostVO host, VolumeInfo volume, boolean isFromVmSnapshot) {
         if (host.getHypervisorType() != HypervisorType.KVM) {
             return true;
         }
 
-        //Turn off snapshot by default for KVM if the volume attached to vm that is not in the Stopped/Destroyed state,
-        //unless it is set in the global flag
+        // For KVM, snapshots of a volume attached to a vm that is not in the Stopped/Destroyed state are allowed
+        // unless the global flag kvm.snapshot.enabled is turned off (it is enabled by default since 4.22.0.0)
         Long vmId = volume.getInstanceId();
         if (vmId != null) {
             VMInstanceVO vm = _vmDao.findById(vmId);
@@ -1585,9 +1585,12 @@ private boolean supportedByHypervisor(VolumeInfo volume, boolean isFromVmSnapsho
             }
             if (hosts != null && !hosts.isEmpty()) {
                 HostVO host = hosts.get(0);
-                if (!hostSupportsSnapsthotForVolume(host, volume, isFromVmSnapshot)) {
+                if (!hostSupportsSnapshotForVolume(host, volume, isFromVmSnapshot)) {
                     throw new CloudRuntimeException(
-                            "KVM Snapshot is not supported for Running VMs. It is disabled by default due to a possible volume corruption in certain cases. To enable it set global settings kvm.snapshot.enabled to True. See the documentation for more details.");
+                            "KVM Snapshot is not supported for Running VMs because the global setting " +
+                                    "kvm.snapshot.enabled is set to false for this deployment. It can be disabled to " +
+                                    "avoid a possible volume corruption in certain cases. To allow snapshots of running " +
+                                    "VMs, set kvm.snapshot.enabled to true. See the documentation for more details.");
                 }
             }
         }