diff --git a/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/configuration/Config.java b/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/configuration/Config.java
index 443909ce319b..7cb5a416d4cc 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/configuration/Config.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/configuration/Config.java
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ public enum Config {
             "300",
             "The time interval in seconds when the management server polls for snapshots to be scheduled.",
             null),
-    KVMSnapshotEnabled("Hidden", SnapshotManager.class, Boolean.class, "kvm.snapshot.enabled", "false", "Whether volume snapshot is enabled on running instances on a KVM host", null),
+    KVMSnapshotEnabled("Hidden", SnapshotManager.class, Boolean.class, "kvm.snapshot.enabled", "true", "Whether volume snapshot is enabled on running instances on a KVM host", null),
 
     // Advanced
     EventPurgeInterval(
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/server/ManagementServerImpl.java b/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/server/ManagementServerImpl.java
index 3245acfbbf2c..775134878439 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/server/ManagementServerImpl.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/server/ManagementServerImpl.java
@@ -4716,7 +4716,7 @@ public Map<String, Object> listCapabilities(final ListCapabilitiesCmd cmd) {
 
         final long diskOffMinSize = VolumeOrchestrationService.CustomDiskOfferingMinSize.value();
         final long diskOffMaxSize = VolumeOrchestrationService.CustomDiskOfferingMaxSize.value();
-        KVMSnapshotEnabled = Boolean.parseBoolean(_configDao.getValue("KVM.snapshot.enabled"));
+        KVMSnapshotEnabled = Boolean.parseBoolean(_configDao.getValue("kvm.snapshot.enabled"));
 
         final boolean userPublicTemplateEnabled = TemplateManager.AllowPublicUserTemplates.valueIn(caller.getId());
 
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/storage/snapshot/SnapshotManager.java b/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/storage/snapshot/SnapshotManager.java
index 6e2059e57761..be59083e5b5d 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/storage/snapshot/SnapshotManager.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/storage/snapshot/SnapshotManager.java
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ public interface SnapshotManager extends Configurable {
     public static final ConfigKey<Integer> BackupRetryInterval = new ConfigKey<Integer>(Integer.class, "backup.retry.interval", "Advanced", "300",
             "Time in seconds between retries in backing up snapshot to secondary", false, ConfigKey.Scope.Global, null);
 
-    public static final ConfigKey<Boolean> VmStorageSnapshotKvm = new ConfigKey<>(Boolean.class, "kvm.vmstoragesnapshot.enabled", "Snapshots", "false", "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);
+    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> 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);