Hi Carlo, Which version of OpenNebula are you using?
Regards, -Tino -- Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc Project Engineer OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Carlo Bongiovanni <c.bongiova...@liberologico.com> wrote: > Hi Tino, > > I tried creating the image from esxi5, and then importing it into > opennebula, and finally the suspend/resume functionality started > working smoothly! > > I anyway had to change a few things as opennebula wasn't accepting the > vm image I was getting from esxi 5. > In fact the vmware configuration in opennebula works when you have > vmname-s001.vmdk etc., but it doesn't when you have vmname-flat.vmdk. > > By looking into the scripts I found that opennebula tries to find the > descriptor (the .vmdk renamed to disk.0), by looking at all the files > with vmdk ending, and omitting the ones that have the "-s00n" in the > name. I had to change that part so that it could omit also files > having "-flat" in the name. > > Anyway now it is pretty slow as the vm it moves is around 16 GB. Is > there a way to speed it up? > > thanks, best regards > carlo > > Il 23 marzo 2012 13:53, Tino Vazquez <tin...@opennebula.org> ha scritto: >> Hi Carlo, >> >> This may be an issue then with the version of the disk. You may want >> to try converting it to a later format using VMware Converter. >> >> Regards, >> >> -Tino >> >> -- >> Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc >> Project Engineer >> OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization >> www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Carlo Bongiovanni >> <c.bongiova...@liberologico.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Il 22 marzo 2012 17:38, Tino Vazquez <tin...@opennebula.org> ha scritto: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> The .vmx file is created by libvirt. OpenNebula can be tailored to add >>>> the line in the file, but I think is better to identify the problem. >>>> >>>> 1) Are you using a .vmdk disk created in esx5, or are you importing >>>> from previous versions? >>> >>> the .vmdk is created from a vmware server (don't know which version) >>> >>>> 2) If you add the line, can you create snapshots? >>> >>> I haven't tried this one >>> >>>> 3) If you create a new VM from scratch, and do a snapshot using the >>>> VI client, does it work? >>> >>> I only tried such a command, by ssh connecting to esxi server, and it >>> worked smoothly: >>> >>> vim-cmd vmsvc/power.suspend Vmid >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> -Tino >>>> >>> >>> >>> thanks >>> c. >>> >>>> -- >>>> Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc >>>> Project Engineer >>>> OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization >>>> www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Carlo Bongiovanni >>>> <c.bongiova...@liberologico.com> wrote: >>>>> Hi All, >>>>> >>>>> I configured opennebula to use esxi 5 as hypervisor. The instantiate, >>>>> shutdown, reboot commands work properly. I'm now testing the suspend >>>>> function but I have such a problem: >>>>> >>>>> from sunstone I choose a RUNNING vm and suspend it, it goes in >>>>> SAVE_SUSPEND state, then it goes in UNKNOWN one. >>>>> >>>>> first he tries to suspend >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:15:45 2012 [ReM][D]: VirtualMachineAction method invoked >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:15:45 2012 [DiM][D]: Suspending VM 36 >>>>> >>>>> then I can see from vsphere that he cancels the operation because of a >>>>> "full disk error" >>>>> >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 Command >>>>> execution fail: /srv/cloud/one/var/remotes/vmm/vmware/save one-36 >>>>> /srv/cloud/one/var//3 >>>>> 6/images/checkpoint vmware001 36 vmware001 >>>>> >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG E 36 save: >>>>> Error executing: virsh -c 'esx://vmware001/?no_verify=1&auto_answer=1' >>>>> suspend one-36 err >>>>> : ExitCode: 1 >>>>> >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 out: >>>>> >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 error: >>>>> Failed to suspend domain one-36 >>>>> >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 error: >>>>> internal error Could not suspend domain: InvalidState - The operation >>>>> cannot be allowed >>>>> at the current time because the virtual machine has a question pending: >>>>> >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 >>>>> 'msg.vmxaiomgr.retryabort.diskfull:The operation on the file >>>>> "/vmfs/devices/multiextent/6979cbe4-disk-000001-s001.vmdk" failed (The >>>>> file is too large). >>>>> >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 The file >>>>> system where disk >>>>> "/vmfs/devices/multiextent/6979cbe4-disk-000001-s001.vmdk" resides is >>>>> full. >>>>> >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 Select >>>>> Retry to attempt the operation again. >>>>> >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 Select >>>>> Cancel to end the session. >>>>> >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 '. >>>>> >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 >>>>> >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 ExitCode: 1 >>>>> >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 Failed >>>>> to execute virtualization driver operation: save. >>>>> >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: SAVE FAILURE 36 - >>>>> >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:21 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 ExitCode: 0 >>>>> >>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:21 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: POLL SUCCESS 36 >>>>> STATE=a >>>>> >>>>> I googled and found a possible solution: >>>>> http://stanis.net/2012/02/error-creating-snapshot-on-virtual-machine-cannot-write-to-multiextents/ >>>>> >>>>> but it requires to append a line to the vmx file used by the vm: >>>>> workingDir = “/vmfs/volumes/4f062853-20101bf0-21bf-d4bed9af57d2/Name >>>>> of Virtual Machine Folder Here/” >>>>> >>>>> Such a file is created by opennebula.. how could I change it in order >>>>> to make it work? >>>>> >>>>> thanks for any help >>>>> kind regards >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Carlo Bongiovanni >>>>> >>>>> Liberologico S.r.l. >>>>> web: www.liberologico.com >>>>> Address: Sardegna Ricerche, Edificio 2 >>>>> Località Piscinamanna >>>>> 09010 Pula (CA) - Italia >>>>> Tel. +39 070 9243.2647 >>>>> callto://pacman81 >>>>> gtalk: carlo.bongiovanni >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Users mailing list >>>>> Users@lists.opennebula.org >>>>> http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Carlo Bongiovanni >>> >>> Liberologico S.r.l. >>> web: www.liberologico.com >>> Address: Sardegna Ricerche, Edificio 2 >>> Località Piscinamanna >>> 09010 Pula (CA) - Italia >>> Tel. +39 070 9243.2647 >>> callto://pacman81 >>> gtalk: carlo.bongiovanni >> > > > > -- > Carlo Bongiovanni > > Liberologico S.r.l. > web: www.liberologico.com > Address: Sardegna Ricerche, Edificio 2 > Località Piscinamanna > 09010 Pula (CA) - Italia > Tel. +39 070 9243.2647 > callto://pacman81 > gtalk: carlo.bongiovanni _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.opennebula.org http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org