Re: [Users] Issues starting hosted engine VM

Itamar, was this only applied for hosted engine or was this added or planed to be added to all engine setups?

On 01/20/2014 11:19 AM, Andrew Lau wrote: > Hi, > > That bug seems to be private :( > > I'm interested also to hear about this feature, as with 3.3.2 I had my > gluster vms go into paused state quite a few times and they actually > couldn't be resumed at all, they needed to be forced off and back on. > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Dafna Ron <dron(a)redhat.com > <mailto:dron@redhat.com>> wrote: > > interesting... :) so this is now configurable... > what happens if qemu fails to start the vm (this happens sometimes > - mostly on file type storage). do we have a re-try or a specific > error telling the use that the activation failed and manual > intervention is required? > > > > On 01/20/2014 11:02 AM, Leonid Natapov wrote: > > All vms. Check this PRD: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723055 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dafna Ron" <dron(a)redhat.com <mailto:dron@redhat.com>> > To: "Leonid Natapov" <lnatapov(a)redhat.com > <mailto:lnatapov@redhat.com>> > Cc: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com>>, "Yedidyah Bar David" > <didi(a)redhat.com <mailto:didi@redhat.com>>, "users" > <users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org>> > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 12:44:46 PM > Subject: Re: [Users] Issues starting hosted engine VM > > On 01/20/2014 10:38 AM, Leonid Natapov wrote: > > 1.hosted-engine --vm-start should start engine vm. There > was no problem with it when I tested it. > 2.hosted-engine --vm-start-paused was added for the case > when something is wrong with engine vm and it can't start > and requires user intervention. For example in case of > kernel panic. > User can start engine vm in paused mode ,connect to it and > try to fix the problem by booting in single user mode ,etc. > 3.When the connectivity to shared storage is lost engine > vm becomes paused. VM should be automatically unpaused > after connectivity resumes (we introduced this feature in > 3.3) but in case of NFS it could take quite time.so may be > we should add something like --vm-resume in order to resume > > Are we talking only on the hosted engine vm or all other vm's? > if I have > other vm's they will also stop, will they be auto started as > well? > > the engine vm manually. > > Thanks, > Leonid. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com>> > To: dron(a)redhat.com <mailto:dron@redhat.com> > Cc: "Leonid Natapov" <lnatapov(a)redhat.com > <mailto:lnatapov@redhat.com>>, "Yedidyah Bar David" > <didi(a)redhat.com <mailto:didi@redhat.com>>, "users" > <users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org>> > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 12:28:15 PM > Subject: Re: [Users] Issues starting hosted engine VM > > It was paused due to the connection loss to the NFS > server, I would assume > once the connection is restored it could attempt to > restore it? But I can > try dig up the vdsm logs if you want, they would only be a > few hours old > > I think having an option like --vm-resume would at least > hide the reason of > having to dig into virsh and messing with authentication > at the very least. > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Dafna Ron > <dron(a)redhat.com <mailto:dron@redhat.com>> wrote: > > the question is what was the vm paused on... this can > be found in the qemu > vm log. > if the vm is paused it will not be auto started - so I > am not sure what > you expect to change? virsh requires authentication > regardless to hosted > engine :) > Leonid, did you do any testing there? > > > On 01/20/2014 10:13 AM, Andrew Lau wrote: > > I have opened this BZ 1055461 anyway just in case > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Andrew Lau > <andrew(a)andrewklau.com > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com><mailto: > andrew(a)andrewklau.com > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com>>> wrote: > > I was more interested in how the score > process would be > calculated, the vm-status option considered > the VM in a bad state. > > I left it for a few minutes and nothing > seemed to have changed, I > think it relates to hosted engine as virsh > requires > authentication. Should I still open a bz? > > Cheers, > Andrew. > > On Jan 20, 2014 7:48 PM, "Dafna Ron" > <dron(a)redhat.com <mailto:dron@redhat.com> > <mailto:dron@redhat.com > <mailto:dron@redhat.com>>> wrote: > > I am not sure this is a hosted engine > question as much as a > qemu question. > qemu-kvm will not support auto start of > vm's after EIO because > of remote possibility of corruption. > > On 01/20/2014 05:46 AM, Andrew Lau wrote: > > Hi, > > Quick question, in the scenario eg. > the NFS server becomes > unreachable and the hosted-engine > goes into a paused > state. Will other hosts attempt to > bring it back up? > Should there be a command eg. > hosted-engine --vm-resume ? > > When this happened, I manually > forced it to resume using virsh > > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 7:21 PM, > Yedidyah Bar David > <didi(a)redhat.com > <mailto:didi@redhat.com> <mailto:didi@redhat.com > <mailto:didi@redhat.com>> > <mailto:didi@redhat.com > <mailto:didi@redhat.com> <mailto:didi@redhat.com > <mailto:didi@redhat.com>>>> wrote: > > Thanks a lot for your efforts > and the report! > -- Didi > > ------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------ > > *From: *"Andrew Lau" > <andrew(a)andrewklau.com <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com> > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com>> > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com> > > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com>>>> > *To: *"users" > <users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> > <mailto:users@ovirt.org > <mailto:users@ovirt.org>> <mailto:users@ovirt.org > <mailto:users@ovirt.org> > > <mailto:users@ovirt.org > <mailto:users@ovirt.org>>>> > *Sent: *Saturday, January > 18, 2014 3:20:22 PM > *Subject: *Re: [Users] > Issues starting hosted > engine VM > > > I believe I found the issue > and have reported it here > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055059 > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at > 11:33 PM, Andrew Lau > <andrew(a)andrewklau.com > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com> > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com>> > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com> > > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com>>>> wrote: > > The interesting thing - > trying it with the > paused option > vdsm seems to create the VM > > hosted-engine > --vm-start-paused > > vdsm.log > http://www.fpaste.org/69604/13900482/ > > But I'm not sure how to > then proceed to > "resume" it. > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at > 10:23 PM, Andrew Lau > <andrew(a)andrewklau.com > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com> > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com>> > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com> > > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com > <mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com>>>> wrote: > > Hi, > > With the great help > from sbonazzo, I > managed to step > past the initial bug > with the > hosted-engine-setup but > appear to have run > into another show stopper. > > I ran through the > install process > successfully up to > the stage where it > completed and the > engine VM was to > be shutdown. (The > engine has already been > installed on > the VM and the host > has been connected to > the engine). > > The issue starts > here that the host finds > itself not > able to start the VM > up again. > > VDSM Logs: > http://www.fpaste.org/69592/00427141/ > ovirt-hosted-engine-ha agent.log > http://www.fpaste.org/69595/43609139/ > > It seems to keep > failing to start the VM.. > when I > restart the agent I > can see the score drop > to 0 after > 3 boot attempts. > The interesting thing > seems to be in > the VDSM Logs > "'Virtual machine does not > exist', > 'code': 1}}" > > I'm not sure where > else to look. Suggestions? > > Cheers, > > Andrew > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:Users@ovirt.org> > <mailto:Users@ovirt.org <mailto:Users@ovirt.org>> > <mailto:Users@ovirt.org > <mailto:Users@ovirt.org> <mailto:Users@ovirt.org > <mailto:Users@ovirt.org>>> > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > > -- Didi > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:Users@ovirt.org> > <mailto:Users@ovirt.org <mailto:Users@ovirt.org>> > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > -- Dafna Ron > > > > -- > Dafna Ron > > > > > -- Dafna Ron > >