Ok so I feel foolish - turns out that there are DHCP issues on this network, hence why the transfer VM network interface is not working. It is not receiving a lease.
Please ignore the above! Thanks Jon On 2 February 2015 at 19:45, Jon Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been writing a script to automatically back up just the first disk > associated with each running VM on a vhost - the rationale being that in > most cases the second disk of a VM is usually backed up in some other > manner, and we only really need a snapshot of the OS disk for disaster > recovery purposes. > > It works fine on XenServer 6.2, by calling the host plugin transfervm and > then exposing a recently snapshotted VDI on the network. However, since > upgrading to version 6.5 calling the expose method of the transfer plugin > fails. > > It creates a transfervm fine, but then sits there for 120 seconds and > returns a XENAPI_PLUGIN_FAILURE, saying the VM started but did not respond. > I can see the VM come online in xentop and it has a network interface > assigned to it. > > I've done some digging and have found that some people are having issues > with network interfaces, on both linux and windows virtual machines, on > this latest release. I was wondering if this was a potentially known issue > - I know that the transfervm template is a busybox based image, is it > possible that some change in the virtual interfaces has messed with its > ability to use the vif? > > Apologies if this makes no sense, or if it is a solved issue - as I say > I've done some digging but not found anyone having similar issues. If > anyone can help shed some light on this, thanks in advance! > > Cheers > Jon > > -- > Jon Marshall > *Workshop IT* > *: * > > 5 Cowcross Street > London EC1M 6DW > 020 7183 0498 > www.workshopit.co.uk > Registered in England and Wales: 8366747 > -- Jon Marshall *Workshop IT* *: * 5 Cowcross Street London EC1M 6DW 020 7183 0498 www.workshopit.co.uk Registered in England and Wales: 8366747
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