[ovirt-devel] VDSM sync meeting minutes August 5th, 2014

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 11:28:14AM +0100, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> Yesterdays we discussed various pending issues, and among them:
> 
> - live merge for 3.5 has backported patches pending merge
>   http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/status:open+project:vdsm+branch:ovirt-3.5+topic:livemerge-3.5,n,z
> 
> - jsonrpc inroduced logging Engine command arguments, equivalent to what
>   we have in xmlrpc
> 
> - We have a ppc-specific bug - on vdsm restart, previously-running VMs
>   are not recovered. This is very dangerous, as it may lead to Engine
>   restarting the same VM elsewhere, causing data curruption.
>   Michal found the bug and its cause - in ppc, we do not inject the vm uuid to
>   the guest bios, and clientIF.isVDSMVm() fails to recognize such Vms.
> 
>   Is there a BZ open on that?

There is: 1126887  recovery of VMs after VDSM restart doesn't work on PPC

> 
> - There was an agreement that we configure libvirtd.log to be too
>   verbose. Yaniv/Mooli, please consider something like my untested
>   http://gerrit.ovirt.org/31135
> 
> Dan.