<div dir="ltr">I don't see any events on the individual VM's that show them going into a paused state. In the past I have seen the VM's paused due to storage issues, but the difference here is that they only indicate they are paused.<div><br></div><div>I did find one event log entry from around the time we did the vdsm restarts that indicated one host has an issue with accessing a storage domain</div><div>Host vm7 cannot access one of the Storage Domains attached to the Data Center OVIRT-PODB. Setting Host state to Non-Operational.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately all the logs have been rotated off at this point so I can't provide any details of the event. I have not seen any newly started VM's transition into this state so recent logs won't provide insight either. For now my plan is to stop and start the VM's to get them back into a proper state.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Omer Frenkel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ofrenkel@redhat.com" target="_blank">ofrenkel@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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> From: "Thomas Scofield" <<a href="mailto:tscofield@gmail.com">tscofield@gmail.com</a>><br>
> To: "users" <<a href="mailto:users@ovirt.org">users@ovirt.org</a>><br>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 4:56:15 AM<br>
> Subject: [ovirt-users] Virtual Machines reporting as paused<br>
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> A large number of my virtual machines are reporting in a paused state but<br>
> they are actually up and running. Unfortunately I don't look at this cluster<br>
> very often so I don't know exactly when it got into this state, I believe it<br>
> may have happened a couple months back when I deployed a change to<br>
> /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf to throttle virtual machines migrations. I deployed this<br>
> change via puppet and had puppet cycle the vdsm daemon. All of the vdsm<br>
> daemons in the cluster were restarted in a short period of time. Since this<br>
> happened some time back all the logs have rotated off.<br>
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> I have tried restarting vdsmd and libvirtd, but that doesn't appear to return<br>
> the virtual machines to an up state. The output of "vdsClient -s 0<br>
> getAllVmStats" reports them as paused, "virsh -r list --all" reports them as<br>
> running. From the GUI I can click run and the VM will show “Up” in the GUI<br>
> and vdsClient. But if I restart vdsm, the VM's revert back to displaying a<br>
> paused state. I did find that the *.recovery files in /var/run/vdsm contain<br>
> a status of Paused even when the GUI and vdsClient are reporting it as up. I<br>
> did try and change the status in this file while vdsm was down and then<br>
> start vdsm, but it had no effect and the entry in the *.recovery file which<br>
> reverted to paused.<br>
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> p335<br>
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> sasS'status'<br>
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> p336<br>
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> S'Paused'<br>
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> Any idea what might have caused the VM's to report as paused and how to<br>
> recover from it?<br>
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> I am running<br>
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> ovirt-3.3.4-1 and vdsm-4.13.3-4<br>
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what do you see in the 'events' subtab for the paused vms?<br>
it should state the time and reason.<br>
usually vms move to pause due to storage errors<br>
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if you have vm in up that moves to paused, you can attach the vdsm.log for the host that runs the vm so we could have more info<br>
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