[ovirt-devel] Unable to import templates

[Christopher Pereira]

On 28-05-2015 9:31, Allon Mureinik wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Christopher Pereira" <kripper at imatronix.cl>
>> To: devel at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 1:44:16 AM
>> Subject: [ovirt-devel] Unable to import templates
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A user was unable to import a VM template from a gluster export storage
>> because of various reasons, and since I'm afraid this could hit many
>> users (losing many days waiting for import tasks to...fail) I would like
>> to share the issues and some ideas with you:
>>
>> 1) Slowness:
>>
>> FYI, working with sparse files on GlusterFS mounts will be very slow
>> until https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220173 is implemented.
>> Maybe the same applies also to other network file-systems.
>>
>> 2) Engine Task timeout:
>>
>> The last times the user tried to import this template (using nightly
>> builds), the task was apparently deleted by Engine because of timeout
>> while the qemu-img process continued running (and consuming resources).
>> I'm not sure, but I believe the tasks are deleted by Engine after 4 or 5
>> days no matter if the qemu-img process is still running (!?).
>> Thus, slow import tasks will never finish.
>> Can someone please confirm?
>> Maybe we can improve something here to support long import tasks.
> Sounds like a bug.
> Could you please report it with all the logs, etc. attached?
Reported with full logs here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226450