Re: [ovirt-devel] Unable to import templates

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christopher Pereira" <kripper(a)imatronix.cl&gt; > To: devel(a)ovirt.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 1:44:16 AM > Subject: [ovirt-devel] Unable to import templates > > Hi, > > A user was unable to import a VM template from a gluster export storage > because of various reasons, and since I'm afraid this could hit many > users (losing many days waiting for import tasks to...fail) I would like > to share the issues and some ideas with you: > > 1) Slowness: > > FYI, working with sparse files on GlusterFS mounts will be very slow > until https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220173 is implemented. > Maybe the same applies also to other network file-systems. > > 2) Engine Task timeout: > > The last times the user tried to import this template (using nightly > builds), the task was apparently deleted by Engine because of timeout > while the qemu-img process continued running (and consuming resources). > I'm not sure, but I believe the tasks are deleted by Engine after 4 or 5 > days no matter if the qemu-img process is still running (!?). > Thus, slow import tasks will never finish. > Can someone please confirm? > Maybe we can improve something here to support long import tasks. Sounds like a bug. Could you please report it with all the logs, etc. attached?