[ovirt-users] Re: Weird problem starting VMs in oVirt-4.4
Hey Joop,
are you using fully allocated qcow2 images ?
Best Regards,
Strahil Nikolov
На 16 юни 2020 г. 20:23:17 GMT+03:00, Joop <jvdwege(a)xs4all.nl> написа:
>On 3-6-2020 14:58, Joop wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Just had a rather new experience in that starting a VM worked but the
>> kernel entered grub2 rescue console due to the fact that something
>was
>> wrong with its virtio-scsi disk.
>> The message is Booting from Hard Disk ....
>> error: ../../grub-core/kern/dl.c:266:invalid arch-independent ELF
>maginc.
>> entering rescue mode...
>>
>> Doing a CTRL-ALT-Del through the spice console let the VM boot
>> correctly. Shutting it down and repeating the procedure I get a disk
>> problem everytime. Weird thing is if I activate the BootMenu and then
>> straight away start the VM all is OK.
>> I don't see any ERROR messages in either vdsm.log, engine.log
>>
>> If I would have to guess it looks like the disk image isn't connected
>> yet when the VM boots but thats weird isn't it?
>>
>As a follow up I tried a couple of other things:
>- installed CentOS-7 and oVirt 4.3.10 using HCI and same problem
>(the previous install of 4.3 was a upgraded version. Don't know the
>start versie)
>- did some testing with copying large files into the engine gluster
>volume through /rhev/datacenter using 'cp' and no problems
>- used qemu-img convert with the engine gluster volume as destination
>--> problems
>- had a good look through lots of logfiles and stumbled across an error
>about missing shard which aligned with qemu-img errors
>- turned features.shard off on the volume and restarted the volume
>- reran the tests with qemu-img --> no problems any more.
>- reinstalled Centos8.2 + oVirt-4.0, turned off sharding before
>starting
>the engine install
>--> no problems installing, no problems importing, no problems starting
>vms, sofar
>
>I need to install another server tomorrow, so I'll do that with
>sharding
>enabled and see if it crashes too and then get the logs some place
>safe.
>
>Regards,
>
>Joop
>
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