<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>I am having an issue where when I use the REST API to connect a snapshot from another VM to a Backup-Appliance-VM, after the clone when I remove the Disk and delete the Snapshot, the disk remains in the Backup-Appliance-VM as /dev/sdb ot /dev/vdb. </div><div><br></div><div>If I reboot the Bakup-Applicance-VM the disk disappears.</div><div><br></div><div>If I manually remove the disk by "echo 1 > /sys/block/sdb/device/delete” the disk will disappear, but if I rescan the scsi bus, it is found and shows up again in the VM OS, but the oVirt WebGUI does NOT show it as connected.</div><div><br></div><div>I am also not able to attach any other disks as it complains of :</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>HotPlugDiskVDS failed: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command '__com.redhat_drive_add': Duplicate ID 'drive-scsi0-0-0-2' for drive</div><div><br></div><div>I did see that others in the past have gotten around this issue by rebooting the Backup-Appliance-VM and then continuing on with the next VM backup and looping through backup-reboot-backup-reboot-etc. </div><div><br></div><div>Anyone have an idea on how to solve this issue and remove the hooks from the guest OS?</div><div><br></div><div>Steps to reproduce this issue:</div><div><br></div><ol><li>Create a backup appliance VM to be used for the backup script execution</li><li>Currently I have the Vms set to virtio with threaded I/O enabled. Also tried virtio_scsi with same result.</li><li>Using REST API – make snapshot of target VM</li><li>Using REST API – fetch vm metadata</li><li>Using REST API – attach the snapshot/disk to the Backup-Appliance-VM</li><li>dd the drive to backup folder</li><li>Using REST API – remove the disk from the Backup-Appliance-VM</li><li>Using REST API – delete the snapshot</li><li>** Check the guest OS of the Backup-Appliance-VM and the mounted drive from the backup above still appears and behaves as mentioned in comments above.</li></ol><div><br></div><div>A second issue is that the above wont work when I have the Vms running on MPIO iSCSI storage, so for testing I have moved to NFS4. Anyone have ideas about either issue, I’d love to hear ;)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Irc.oftc.net #ovirt</div><div>zipur</div><div><br></div><br></body></html>