[Users] oVirt 3.2.1 - VM in unknown status

[Roy Golan]

On Fri 19 Apr 2013 01:50:21 PM IDT, Piotr Szubiakowski wrote:
>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I had a nfs storage problems and one of my VM's is now in unknown
>>>> state. The VM is not attached to any host. The virsh tool shows
>>>> that VM is not running now. Is there any way to bring that kind of
>>>> VM back to life?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Piotr
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I found workaround for this situation. There is a possibility to
>>> change the VM status manually in database:
>>>
>>> update vm_dynamic set status=0 where
>>> vm_guid='1d5342a3-9375-49c5-bf2a-2bd444d41d09';
>>>
>>> @oVirt developers
>>> It seems that in some situations, VM with'unknown' status has no
>>> chances to change state. When all hosts in data center are up and
>>> the VM is not attached to any host it's a dead end. In this
>>> particular situation oVirt engine administrator can't perform any
>>> actions on "lost" VM. Is any way to handle this case without
>>> database access?
>>>
>> the state transition in this case is the engine responsibility and
>> not the user. its done by monitoring all VMs on all Hosts periodically.
>> Whats more interesting is how have you got to that situation and if
>> its worth a bug please be kind to report it.
>
> Hi Roy,
> I reported a bug (953839). If it would be considered as worth to fix I
> can provide some help.
>
> I haven't introduce jet to the oVirt community. So I'm software
> engineer in the Polish Research and Academic Computer Network. Mainly
> I'm Java EE developer. We use oVirt to manage our development and
> testing environments. I'm very enthusiastic about oVirt project.
>
Welcome Piotr and thank you very much for posting the bug.
Have a peek at wiki.ovirt.org to get more info about areas you have 
interest in.

You can also join the IRC channel #ovirt on irc.oftc.net  - checkout 
http://www.ovirt.org/Communication#IRC for more info

> PS
> sorry for my English. I try to do my best ;-)
>
> Best regards,
> Piotr
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