[ovirt-devel] [vdsm] VM recovery now depends on HSM

Hi all, As part of the new live merge feature, when vdsm starts and has to recover existing VMs, it calls VM._syncVolumeChain to ensure that vdsm's view of the volume chain matches libvirt's. This involves two kinds of operations: 1) sync VM object, 2) sync underlying storage metadata via HSM. This means that HSM must be up (and the storage domain(s) that the VM is using must be accessible. When testing some rather eccentric error flows, I am finding this to not always be the case. Is there a way to have VM recovery wait on HSM to come up? How should we respond if a required storage domain cannot be accessed? Is there a mechanism in vdsm to schedule an operation to be retried at a later time? Perhaps I could just schedule the sync and it could be retried until the required resources are available. Thanks for your insights. -- Adam Litke