[Users] New virtual disks will NOT reliably be placed where I specified

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/01/2012 04:21 PM, Terry Phelps wrote:
> I have a new ovirt installation that I am playing with. If it matters, I
> built it by installing and patching Fedora 16, installing the
> ovirt-engine RPM and then configuring this same machine as my "node", or
> host, or whatever you call it.
>
> I created 3 NFS shares on this machine for the 3 required domains, and
> then created those domains in the ovirt-engine. I have uploaded a ISO
> and created a couple of VMs and they work.
>
> HOWEVER, when create a virtual disk for my VMs, I specifiy the "data
> domain" as its location, and have then found, twice in three tries, that
> the virtual disk is placed on the "export domain". I am quite sure I am
> specifying my "data domain" when I create the disk. But then when I
> click on the VM, and then open the "General" tab, the "Resides on
> Storage Domain" field says "export".
>
> And when I look at the host, the virtual disk really IS in the export
> domain:
>
> [root at oravm2 exportdomain]# find . -type f | xargs ls -l
> ...
> -rw-rw---- 1 vdsm kvm 10737418240 Mar  1 09:17
> ./0efcc135-2a17-4cfd-ba7d-c3735349d455/images/fda97fda-f0ca-4926-9a3e-af836466b5b1/9167e3a9-1e98-4f11-a99c-616adbe52f95
>
> I can't imagine what I might be doing wrong to make this happen. There
> is no domain placement when I create the VM, as best I can tell.
> Placement is given only when I create the virtual disk.
>
> Anyone have an idea on this?

actually, there is not even support for creating a disk on the export 
domain, only on data domain, so indeed very strange.
backend/vsdm logs from an "add disk" command?