Hi David, You can also check the libvirt log. Please send me the vdsm and libvirt logs so I can look at it too. thanks.
----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Wilson" <d...@dcdata.co.za> > To: "Dan Kenigsberg" <dan...@redhat.com> > Cc: "Yeela Kaplan" <ykap...@redhat.com>, users@ovirt.org > Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 5:51:26 PM > Subject: Re: [Users] VM has paused due to unknown storage error > > > Hi everyone, > > Thank you for your responses. > > Yeela: > >When oVirt started the vm it mounted the corrupt disk image that > >seemed fine, but it couldn't find the OS because of the corrupted > >fs, and the error caused it to pause the guest. > > To clear things up it was the /var mount that had the corrupted > filesystem, not the guest's root filesystem. > oVirt still continued to pause the guest even when I had booted the > guest off a CentOS DVD ISO, run rescue mode and manually activated > the /var logical volume. In this case I did not activate or mount > the guests root filesystem and only activated the guests /var > filesystem so that I could fsck it. fsck would run for around 5-10 > minutes with the message "Deleting orphaned inode......" and then > oVirt would simply pause the entire guest. > The only information I could find was on the physical host's > vdsm.log, which specified the following: > libvirtEventLoop:: INFO::2012-12-02 > 09:05:50,296::libvirtvm::1965::vm.Vm::(_onAbnormalStop) > vmId=`23b9212c-1e25-4003-aa18-b1e819bf6bb1`::abnormal vm stop device > ide0-0-1 error eother > > Perh aps there was another log I should have examined to see if more > i nforma tion was provided about wh y oVirt was pausing the guest? > > > > Shu: > This is what I did to dd the images off, and to work around the > problem : > 1.) O n the physical host : C reated an NFS mount to another > temporary Linux system that had sufficient storage for the 500GB > filesystem > 2. ) O n the physical host : U sed 'dd' to dump the /var filesystem's > logical vol ume to an image file via NFS on t he temporar y Linux > system . > 3.) On the temporary Linux s ystem that now contained the filesystem > image file, I ran "qemu-img info " and noticed that the fi lesystem > image was qc ow2 type and specified a ba cking file. > 4.) On t he physical host : Used 'dd' to dump the lo gical volume > specified as a backing file, to an image file via NFS on t he > temporar y Linux system. > 5. ) On the temporary Linux system: Used ' qemu-img reba se ' to > change the backing file to the local copy of the back ing file > image. > 6.) On the temporary Linux system: Used 'qemu-img commit' to commit > the changes stored in the filesystem image file to the backing file > image. > 7.) O n the temporary Linux sy ste m : U sed 'qemu-img convert' to > convert the backing file image to raw format. > 8.) On the temporary Linux system: Used 'losetup', 'kpart' and 'fsck' > to repair the backing file image. Fsck displayed t he same 'Del > eting orphaned in ode ....' message but managed to con tinue and > completed ok. > 9.) O n the tempo rary Linux system: Mo unted the loop filesystem and > confirmed that the data was intact and was current. > 10 .) I n the oVirt GUI: Deactivated the faulty Virtual D isk > attached to the guest. > 11 .) In the oVirt GUI: Created a new 'preallocated ' Virtual Disk of > sufficient size for the guest. > 1 2 .) O n the physical host: Used 'dd' to upload the raw ba cking > file image from (7) to the new lo gical volume. > 1 3 .) I then conf igured the guest to boot from the CentOS D VD ISO > into res cue mode to confirm that the lo gical volume for th e guest > 's /var filesystem was accessi ble and mountable. > 1 4 .) Reconfigured the guest to boo t from it's primary Virtual Disk > and sta rted up the guest. > > > > > > > > > > > Get important Linux and industry-related news at: facebook.com/dcdata > > Kind regards, > > David Wilson > CNS,CLS, LINUX+, CLA, DCTS, LPIC3 > LinuxTech CC t/a DcData > CK number: 2001/058368/23 > > Website: http://www.dcdata.co.za > Support: +27(0)860-1-LINUX > Mobile: +27(0)824147413 > Tel: +27(0)333446100 > Fax: +27(0)866878971 On 12/03/2012 01:07 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:37:01AM -0500, Yeela Kaplan wrote: > > Glad to hear it worked out. > > When oVirt started the vm it mounted the corrupt disk image that > seemed fine, > but it couldn't find the OS because of the corrupted fs, > and the error caused it to pause the guest. I think we should be a > bit more exact here: a VM without an installed OS > does not pause. The cause of the pause was, most probably, and > attempt > to read from a corrupted qcow. When qemu fails to serve the guest > with > data due to a bug in the underlying storage, qemu stops and waits for > further instructions from management. We use this feature for > automatic > lv-extend (on enospace error). But here, with eother error, a human > intervension is required. > > > > > Time to evaluate your email security provider? Watch the video and > take advantage of Mimecast’s first ever limited promotion. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users