[Users] Starting VM gets paused

Nicolas Ecarnot nicolas at ecarnot.net
Wed Mar 27 08:38:22 UTC 2013


Le 26/03/2013 12:17, Nicolas Ecarnot a écrit :
> Le 25/03/2013 12:10, Nicolas Ecarnot a écrit :
>> Le 24/03/2013 09:53, Dafna Ron a écrit :
>>> is the vm preallocated or thin provision disk type?
>>
>> This VM has 3 disks :
>> - first disk to host the windows system : Thin provision
>> - second disk to store some data : Preallocated
>> - third disk to store some more data : Thin provision
>>
>> I'm realizing that amongst the 15 VMs, only this one and another one
>> that is stopped are using preallocated disks.
>> I'm regularly migrating some VMs (and stopping and starting and playing
>> with them) with no issue, and they all are using thin provisioned disks!
>>
>> Could this be a common factor of the problem?
>>
>>>
>>> also, can you please attach engine, vdsm, libvirt and the vm's qemu
>>> logs?
>>
>> Relevant logs :
>>
>> ############
>>
>> Ok, I'm in the process of collecting the logs and posting them in a
>> useable manner.
>>
>> More to come.
>
> Ok, once again, I ran a test and observed the relevant logs.
> I tried to isolate the time frames, but it may be long for vdsm.log
>
> Here they are :
> * /var/log/libvirt/qemu/serv-chk-adm3.log
> http://pastebin.com/JVKMSmxD
> * /var/log/libvirtd.log
> http://pastebin.com/sWGDCqNh
> * /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log (the BIG one)
> http://pastebin.com/bevTEhym
>
> What I can add to help you help me, is that :
> - I saw that all my VM appear as tainted. I did not know what that meant
> (but RTFMed since), and this does not appear to disturb the other VMs
> - Many VMs including the problematic one have been imported from
> ovirt-v2v with now such issue.
> - This particular VM was also imported, but the starting point was a
> vmdk or ova single file.
> - Two additionnal data disks were added
> - As I said, this is the only running VM stored as pre allocated.
>
> Regards,
>

One suggestion : I see no obvious errors in the log files. Could this 
paused state happen due to a VM's kernel panic?

-- 
Nicolas Ecarnot



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