[Users] [Fwd: Guest never gets removed]

[Gilad Chaplik]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karli Sjöberg" <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>
> To: "Noam Slomianko" <nslomian at redhat.com>
> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 3:50:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] [Fwd:  Guest never gets removed]
> 
> Hi Noam!
> 
> tor 2013-05-16 klockan 06:23 -0400 skrev Noam Slomianko:
> 
> 
> Hi Karli,
> I don't know about reminding the engine of forgotten actions and sounds like
> the failure can originate from all sort of problems...
> This means I don't have a good solution, but I do have "a" solution.
> 
> What is a man without backups?;)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Go to the host and manually remoove the VM:
> If vdsClient is installed do "vdsClient 0 list table" and then "vdsClient 0
> destroy <UUID>"
> If not the use virsh to list the vms "virsh list" then using the id/name
> remove it "virsh destroy <id/name>"
> 
> No sign of that Guest using any of the above commands. I also checked whether
> it still had any "ghost" Virtual Disks so I guess SPM managed to clear that.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Then go to Ovirt DB and delete (cascade) the VM from vm_static
> 
> That´s where I could use the most guideance really. How exactly do I do that?

as a last resort, you can run the following sql statements
1) select vm_guid from vm_static where vm_name = '???' 
2) delete from snapshots where vm_id = 'vm_guid' -- vm_guid from 1
3) select DeleteVmStatic('vm_guid') -- vm_guid from 1

> 
> 
> 
> 
> But remember that as always touching the inner working directly might be
> risky and prone to errors (no way to recover if you deleted the wrong VM)
> So use with caution.
> 
> I hope this helps,
> Noam.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karli Sjöberg" < Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se >
> To: "users" < users at ovirt.org >
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:17:47 AM
> Subject: [Users] [Fwd:  Guest never gets removed]
> 
> Hello everyone!
> 
> I think perhaps this question passed completly unnoticed so I´m trying to
> resend it to perhaps get some attention.
> 
> /Karli
> 
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> 
> 
> Från : Karli Sjöberg < Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se >
> Till : users < users at ovirt.org >
> Ämne : [Users] Guest never gets removed
> Datum : Wed, 8 May 2013 05:06:57 +0000
> 
> Hi,
> 
> yesterday I issued a remove of a Guest and then immediately afterwards engine
> started complaining about sync errors between database and storage metadata.
> To my surprise, both of my two data stores were marked as master in their
> storage metadata files. I had to change "MASTER_VERSION" and "ROLE", then
> tail the vdsm log on a Host and watch it complain that the checksum is wrong
> and how it is ${X} but should be ${Y} according to it´s logic, and
> copy/paste tbe correct checksum into storage metadata file as well. This had
> to be done for both data domains, and when done, I have one "Master"- and
> one "Regular" domain that works and equals what´s in the database.
> 
> The problem is that engine now apparently has forgotten about my Guest that
> it was supposed to remove before all of this... The operation is still
> listed in "Tasks", so it´s not quite finished yet. Since it´s changed state
> to "hourglass" and status "Image locked", I can´t click for removal again
> either...
> 
> Is there any way to "remind" engine of a job not done?
> 
> 
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