[Users] clone vm from snapshot problem in 3.2

[Gianluca Cecchi]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Alissa Bonas wrote:

>> >
>> > 1)
>> > OK, if I clone a powered on VM from a snapshot with two disks and
>> > here
>> > you can find clone in action with webadmin gui and iotop on node
>> > that
>> > shows they are cloning in parallel.. well!
>> > https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mvZ3lzY0l1MDc5OVE/edit?usp=sharing
>> >
>> > The VM is a slackware 14 32bit with virtio disk that I obtained
>> > from
>> > a
>> > virt-v2v from CentOS 6.3+Qemu/KVM
>> > The problem is that the cloned VM recognizes the disks in reversed
>> > order
>> >
>> > See these images where sl1432 is master slcone is the clone
>> >
>> > disk layout in details pane seems equal with boot disk the one that
>> > appears as the second, but the master boots ok, the slave no.
>> > Disks are swapped
>> >
>> > Master VM disk details:
>> > https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mvSWNVNFI4bHg4Umc/edit?usp=sharing
>> >
>> > Clone VM disks details:
>> > https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mvM1N0bVcyNlFPS1U/edit?usp=sharing
>> >
>> > Page with the two consoles where you can see that vda of master
>> > becomes vdb of clone and vice-versa:
>> > https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mveFpESEs5V1dUTFE/edit?usp=sharing
>> >
>> > Can I swap again in some way? In VMware for example you can see and
>> > edit SCSI IDs of disks...
>
> Can you please provide the engine logs where the boot success/failure of master and clone can be seen?

OK.
here it is:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mva2Z2dUNJTWlCWHM/edit?usp=sharing

Starting point 15:16 both powered off.
First message with 15:17 is boot of sl1432b that is the master and boots ok.

First message with 15:21 is boot of slclone that is the clone.

The slackware OS uses lilo as boot loader and on master it is
configured this way at the moment:

root at sl1432b:~# grep -v ^# /etc/lilo.conf
append=" vt.default_utf8=0"
boot = /dev/vda

  bitmap = /boot/slack.bmp
  bmp-colors = 255,0,255,0,255,0
  bmp-table = 60,6,1,16
  bmp-timer = 65,27,0,255


prompt
timeout = 50
change-rules
  reset
vga = normal

disk=/dev/vda bios=0x80 max-partitions=7

image = /boot/vmlinuz
  root = /dev/vda2
  initrd = /boot/initrd.gz
  label = Linux
  read-only



The "disk=..." entry was added to be able to support boot from device
of type vda in slackware, that doesn't support it ootb..

Gianluca