[Users] oVirt Forgot About a VM's Disks, NICs, etc.

[Joshua Dotson]

Hi,

A user reported to me today that their VM was offline.  I checked the oVirt
portal and sure enough it was down.  Strangely though, the disks and NICs I
configured for this VM are missing from the portal and, as such, the
machine refuses to boot.  I can't seem to find anything relating to the VM
in the {libvirt, vdsm, engine} logs, even by it's ovirt shell-derived UUID
and even after un-xz'ing them.  I am the only person with the admin
credentials to oVirt.

I've been running oVirt 3.0 on Fedora 16 for the past year, which is
clearly out of date, with basically no problems at all (which is why I've
resisted upgrading).  My last boot was about 47 days ago.  My hypervisors
are all Fedora as well with locally configured storage.

I suspect the virtual machine's data and even state remain in the storage
domain, even if the database forgot about them.

Please help me restore this VM to its running state, if possible.  I can
provide any system information you request fairly quickly.  In a
maybe-related note, I've been working on an ntpd problem, which caused some
time sync problems across the oVirt environment.

[root at kvas-tfkf log]# rpm -qa|grep ovirt
ovirt-engine-notification-service-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
ovirt-engine-dbscripts-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
ovirt-engine-setup-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
ovirt-engine-config-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
ovirt-engine-restapi-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
ovirt-engine-backend-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
ovirt-engine-genericapi-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
ovirt-engine-jboss-deps-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
ovirt-engine-userportal-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
ovirt-engine-log-collector-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
ovirt-engine-tools-common-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
ovirt-engine-jbossas-1.2-2.fc16.x86_64
ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
ovirt-engine-iso-uploader-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
ovirt-engine-3.0.0_0001-1.6.fc16.x86_64
[root at kvas-tfkf log]#



[oVirt shell (connected)]# show vm kprj-77na

id                        : f87643fe-03c8-4373-875d-581b01829ae2
name                      : kprj-77na
description               : Project Server - "77NA"
cluster-id                : dc8ae71e-22e6-11e2-b3e8-00a0d1e2f4d0
cpu-topology-cores        : 8
cpu-topology-sockets      : 1
creation_time             : 2012-11-08T16:40:52.287-05:00
display-monitors          : 1
display-type              : vnc
high_availability-enabled : False
high_availability-priority: 1
memory                    : 34359738368
memory_policy-guaranteed  : 17179869184
origin                    : ovirt
os-boot-dev               : cdrom
os-boot-dev               : hd
os-type                   : other_linux
placement_policy-affinity : user_migratable
start_time                : 2013-02-05T16:33:41.563Z
stateless                 : False
status-state              : down
template-id               : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
type                      : server
usb-enabled               : False


Thanks,
Joshua
-- 
Joshua Dotson
Founder, Wrale Ltd
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