[Users] Guest life-cycle

Hi, after being able to start my first guest I noticed two things: 1) When I started the guest with the "run once" option the console button didn't become available. Navigating to another section of the GUI and back didn't help. I was only able to make is available by closing the browser tab and then going to the admin portal again from scratch. 2) When my guest froze (due to nested virtualization experimentation that apparently doesn't work yet) I had no (obvious) way to kill the vm. Hitting the stop button apparently only sends a shutdown command but I couldn't find any way to issue a destroy command. After killing the qemu process on the host manually the guest in the portal gui apparently went into an unknown "?" state which isn't surprising but now there seems to be no way to get rid of the vm. What is proper way to get rid of such a misbehaving guest? Regards, Dennis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml@conversis.de> To: "users" <users@ovirt.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:40:29 AM Subject: [Users] Guest life-cycle
Hi, after being able to start my first guest I noticed two things: 1) When I started the guest with the "run once" option the console button didn't become available. Navigating to another section of the GUI and back didn't help. I was only able to make is available by closing the browser tab and then going to the admin portal again from scratch.
there was an issue with the spice-xpi that was fixed in F17, I'd have to check to see if that made it to F16. What OS are you on and what version of spice-xpi ?
2) When my guest froze (due to nested virtualization experimentation that apparently doesn't work yet) I had no (obvious) way to kill the vm. Hitting the stop button apparently only sends a shutdown command but I couldn't find any way to issue a destroy command.
Shutdown requires guest agent. If you right click on the VM you can do a stop - which forces it down.
After killing the qemu process on the host manually the guest in the portal gui apparently went into an unknown "?" state which isn't surprising but now there seems to be no way to get rid of the vm.
What is proper way to get rid of such a misbehaving guest?
Regards, Dennis _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

----- Original Message -----
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml@conversis.de> To: "users" <users@ovirt.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:40:29 AM Subject: [Users] Guest life-cycle
Hi, after being able to start my first guest I noticed two things: 1) When I started the guest with the "run once" option the console button didn't become available. Navigating to another section of the GUI and back didn't help. I was only able to make is available by closing the browser tab and then going to the admin portal again from scratch.
there was an issue with the spice-xpi that was fixed in F17, I'd have to check to see if that made it to F16.
Still in -testing ? http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/16/x86_64/spice...
What OS are you on and what version of spice-xpi ?
2) When my guest froze (due to nested virtualization experimentation that apparently doesn't work yet) I had no (obvious) way to kill the vm. Hitting the stop button apparently only sends a shutdown command but I couldn't find any way to issue a destroy command.
Shutdown requires guest agent. If you right click on the VM you can do a stop - which forces it down.
After killing the qemu process on the host manually the guest in the portal gui apparently went into an unknown "?" state which isn't surprising but now there seems to be no way to get rid of the vm.
What is proper way to get rid of such a misbehaving guest?
Regards, Dennis _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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From: "Yaniv Kaul" <ykaul@redhat.com> To: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow@redhat.com> Cc: "users" <users@ovirt.org>, "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml@conversis.de> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:50:18 AM Subject: Re: [Users] Guest life-cycle
----- Original Message -----
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml@conversis.de> To: "users" <users@ovirt.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:40:29 AM Subject: [Users] Guest life-cycle
Hi, after being able to start my first guest I noticed two things: 1) When I started the guest with the "run once" option the console button didn't become available. Navigating to another section of the GUI and back didn't help. I was only able to make is available by closing the browser tab and then going to the admin portal again from scratch.
there was an issue with the spice-xpi that was fixed in F17, I'd have to check to see if that made it to F16.
Still in -testing ? http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/16/x86_64/spice...
I guess we need more people to give it good karma
What OS are you on and what version of spice-xpi ?
2) When my guest froze (due to nested virtualization experimentation that apparently doesn't work yet) I had no (obvious) way to kill the vm. Hitting the stop button apparently only sends a shutdown command but I couldn't find any way to issue a destroy command.
Shutdown requires guest agent. If you right click on the VM you can do a stop - which forces it down.
After killing the qemu process on the host manually the guest in the portal gui apparently went into an unknown "?" state which isn't surprising but now there seems to be no way to get rid of the vm.
What is proper way to get rid of such a misbehaving guest?
Regards, Dennis _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

On 06/20/2012 02:45 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml@conversis.de> To: "users" <users@ovirt.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:40:29 AM Subject: [Users] Guest life-cycle
Hi, after being able to start my first guest I noticed two things: 1) When I started the guest with the "run once" option the console button didn't become available. Navigating to another section of the GUI and back didn't help. I was only able to make is available by closing the browser tab and then going to the admin portal again from scratch.
there was an issue with the spice-xpi that was fixed in F17, I'd have to check to see if that made it to F16. What OS are you on and what version of spice-xpi ?
The client is on F15 with spice-xpi-2.7-1. Should this affect the icon in the gui though? I thought spice would only come into play once I actually click that button and start the console.
2) When my guest froze (due to nested virtualization experimentation that apparently doesn't work yet) I had no (obvious) way to kill the vm. Hitting the stop button apparently only sends a shutdown command but I couldn't find any way to issue a destroy command.
Shutdown requires guest agent. If you right click on the VM you can do a stop - which forces it down.
This only seems to be available as long as the VM is still running. Now that it is in an unknown state that menu option is grayed out as is the remove option. How can I clean this up? Regards, Dennis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml@conversis.de> To: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow@redhat.com> Cc: "users" <users@ovirt.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:57:07 AM Subject: Re: [Users] Guest life-cycle
On 06/20/2012 02:45 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml@conversis.de> To: "users" <users@ovirt.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:40:29 AM Subject: [Users] Guest life-cycle
Hi, after being able to start my first guest I noticed two things: 1) When I started the guest with the "run once" option the console button didn't become available. Navigating to another section of the GUI and back didn't help. I was only able to make is available by closing the browser tab and then going to the admin portal again from scratch.
there was an issue with the spice-xpi that was fixed in F17, I'd have to check to see if that made it to F16. What OS are you on and what version of spice-xpi ?
The client is on F15 with spice-xpi-2.7-1. Should this affect the icon in the gui though? I thought spice would only come into play once I actually click that button and start the console.
It is an xpi issue. There's communication between the portal and the XPI regarding if a console is active. There was a bug in the older release of the XPI that meant that the status wasn't refreshed.
2) When my guest froze (due to nested virtualization experimentation that apparently doesn't work yet) I had no (obvious) way to kill the vm. Hitting the stop button apparently only sends a shutdown command but I couldn't find any way to issue a destroy command.
Shutdown requires guest agent. If you right click on the VM you can do a stop - which forces it down.
This only seems to be available as long as the VM is still running. Now that it is in an unknown state that menu option is grayed out as is the remove option. How can I clean this up?
Regards, Dennis

On 06/20/2012 03:00 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml@conversis.de> To: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow@redhat.com> Cc: "users" <users@ovirt.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:57:07 AM Subject: Re: [Users] Guest life-cycle
On 06/20/2012 02:45 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml@conversis.de> To: "users" <users@ovirt.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:40:29 AM Subject: [Users] Guest life-cycle
Hi, after being able to start my first guest I noticed two things: 1) When I started the guest with the "run once" option the console button didn't become available. Navigating to another section of the GUI and back didn't help. I was only able to make is available by closing the browser tab and then going to the admin portal again from scratch.
there was an issue with the spice-xpi that was fixed in F17, I'd have to check to see if that made it to F16. What OS are you on and what version of spice-xpi ?
The client is on F15 with spice-xpi-2.7-1. Should this affect the icon in the gui though? I thought spice would only come into play once I actually click that button and start the console.
It is an xpi issue. There's communication between the portal and the XPI regarding if a console is active. There was a bug in the older release of the XPI that meant that the status wasn't refreshed.
I rebuilt the latest spice-xpi package from koji and that indeed fixes the issue, thanks! Regards, Dennis
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Andrew Cathrow
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Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
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Yaniv Kaul