[Users] Getting ovirt to update VMs to "Up" state sooner

[Yaniv Kaul]

On 06/07/2012 05:23 AM, Andrey F. wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> We are trying to optimize our continuous integration system around our 
> ovirt-management software (i.e. we call into the ovirt apis to create 
> VMs, do funny stuff with the VMs, etc.). For our tests, we deployed a 
> VM that boots extremely quickly (2 seconds) in hoping to speed up our 
> tests. Unfortunately, ovirt is not updating the state of the VM to 
> "Up" as fast as we'd like. VDSM show the following in the logs:
>
> Thread-420807::DEBUG::2012-06-06 
> 22:14:47,662::clientIF::54::vds::(wrapper) [10.225.52.7]::call 
> *getVmStats *with ('e3b250c9-a5ca-42da-bd8f-245a3ef4bbfb',) {}
> Thread-420807::DEBUG::2012-06-06 
> 22:14:47,663::libvirtvm::222::vm.Vm::(_getDiskStats) 
> vmId=`e3b250c9-a5ca-42da-bd8f-245a3ef4bbfb`::*Disk stats not available
> *Thread-420807::DEBUG::2012-06-06 
> 22:14:47,663::libvirtvm::251::vm.Vm::(_getDiskLatency) 
> vmId=`e3b250c9-a5ca-42da-bd8f-245a3ef4bbfb`::*Disk latency not available
> *Thread-420807::DEBUG::2012-06-06 
> 22:14:47,663::clientIF::59::vds::(wrapper) return getVmStats with 
> {'status': {'message': 'Done', 'code': 0}, 'statsList': [{'status': 
> 'Up', 'username': 'Unknown', 'memUsage': '0', 'acpiEnable': 'tru
> e', 'pid': '32299', 'displayIp': '0', 'displayPort': u'5900', 
> 'session': 'Unknown', 'displaySecurePort': u'5901', 'cdrom': 
> '/rhev/data-center/c861891c-7011-4209-9871-73c4b4e42560/b1ad8b2c-d2e1-479b-be2e-90fcbe446e86/images/11111111
> -1111-1111-1111-111111111111/CorePlus-current.iso', 'pauseCode': 
> 'NOERR', 'clientIp': '', 'kvmEnable': 'true', 'network': {u'vnet0': 
> {'macAddr': u'00:1a:4a:a8:7a:50', 'rxDropped': '0', 'rxErrors': '0', 
> 'txDropped': '0', 'txRate': '
> 0.0', 'rxRate': '0.0', 'txErrors': '0', 'state': 'unknown', 'speed': 
> '1000', 'name': u'vnet0'}}, 'vmId': 
> 'e3b250c9-a5ca-42da-bd8f-245a3ef4bbfb', 'monitorResponse': '0', 
> 'cpuUser': '0.00', 'disks': {u'vda': {'readLatency': '0', 'app
> arentsize': '1073741824', 'writeLatency': '0', 'imageID': 
> '38ffdd23-e16d-4cde-a384-3290450fe87f', 'flushLatency': '0', 
> 'truesize': '1073741824'}}, 'boot': 'c', 'statsAge': '1.81', 
> 'cpuIdle': '100.00', 'elapsedTime': '61', 'vmType':
>  'kvm', 'cpuSys': '0.00', 'timeOffset': '0', 'appsList': [], 
> 'guestIPs': '', 'displayType': 'qxl', 'nice': ''}]}
>
> This repeats for about a minute until the VM is finally marked "Up". 
> Is there any trick we can do to get ovirt to mark the VM "Up" quicker? 
> Perhaps generate some sort of activity on the VM?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrey

Do you have the guest agent installed on the guest?
Y.

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