During MS restart as part of host connect, vm sync happens. This may be stopping VMs if there is a mismatch in actual state and what is present in the database. Do you see anything useful in the MS logs?
-Koushik On 27-Aug-2013, at 4:20 AM, "Musayev, Ilya" <imusa...@webmd.net> wrote: > I've been trying to figure out an issue where some of my VMs will go offline > if I restart cloudstack management service. > > After digging for a bit, I found a culprit. > > If you don't have vmware tools installed, ACS checks the state of vm (I.e. > running or stopped, as well as agentState) > > If VM state is running and agentState - is not (I'm under assumption vmware > tools is agentState) then ACS powers off the guest - when ACS management > server is restarted. > > So I'm trying to figure out if this is by design or a bug? > > In my case, fedora 17 does not have official vmware tools and neither do some > other Ubuntu distros. I can try to get openvmtools to work, but I'm thinking > - why would ACS care? >
