Re: [ovirt-users] VM Import problems

So should I detach the domain, update the tarball then reattach it.

The problem lies with machines that have already been imported once before. Thanks On Feb 6, 2015 3:23 PM, Greg Padgett <gpadgett(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > On 02/05/2015 04:37 PM, Donny Davis wrote: >> I need some help getting my users vm’s imported back into the system after >> the failure yesterday. I reattached the storage and half of the vm’s >> imported without issue. The other half of the vms give this error >> >> Error while executing action: Cannot import VM. Storage Domain doesn't exist >> >> Funny part is, I only had one storage domain… and I imported it back into >> the engine… I’m confused. >> >> Donny >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > > Hi Donny, > > Are there any additional details accompanying this error in the engine > log? It sounds like a bug, just not yet sure where to look. > > As for a possible hack/workaround (maybe someone else will have a > safer/easier idea here!), the OVFs holding the domain ids in question are > in a tarball on the imported storage. If the import failure is happening > because the storageId in the OVFs is wrong, it should be possible to > update them to the correct value and retry the import. > > Note that by default the tarball is on the storage in 2 places--I'd change > them both, but of course don't forget to make a backup first. > > HTH, > Greg >