[Users] ovirt shows vm status as down, but vm is actually up and running

[Itamar Heim]

On 05/02/2013 10:40 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 11:26:41PM +0530, Pradipta Kumar Banerjee wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have a situation where VM is actually up and running (I can access its VNC
>> console), however oVirt engine ui shows the status as down.
>> I'm using ovirt engine v3.2 from stable repo on F18
>> Any suggestions to trouble shoot the issue ?
>
> That's like the worse thing that can happen - if you ever make decide to
> start another instance of that VM on another host - so please tread
> carefully.
>
> Does the host that run the VM shows as Up in Engine?
> What does
>      vdsClient -s 0 list table
> shows there?
>
> and
>      virsh -r list
> ?
>
> When is the last time that the VM was known to be up by Engine? Do you
> have vdsm.log from that time?
>
> It is very important to the project that you collect as much information
> about the lifecycle of this VM (i.e. was it migrated from somewhere,
> complete vdsm.log since creation). However, you may have a conflicting
> interest if you value that VM's data. You should probably shut it down
> cleanly from within the guest in that case.
>
> Dan.
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and are you sure the status is down, not powering down which as the same 
(confusingly) red icon?