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

[Itamar Heim]

On 05/02/2013 19:11, Joshua Dotson wrote:
> 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 clearly out of date, with basically no problems at all (which is why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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3.0... wow.
can you try and locate the OVF for that VM on the master storage domain 
maybe?