[Users] Disk state - Illegal?

[Andrew Lau]

I was just wondering, did anyone ever find the root cause of this issue?

Mine still seems to be doing the same thing, is it a permission issue or a
bug?


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Dan Ferris <dferris at prometheusresearch.com
> wrote:

> I was off today, so I just saw this.  I will try it out tomorrow.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dan
>
>
> On 9/25/2013 8:53 PM, Andrew Lau wrote:
>
>> I noticed that too, I wasn't sure if it was a bug or just how I had
>> setup my NFS share..
>>
>> There were three steps I did to remove the disk images, I'm sure there's
>> a 100% easier solution..:
>>
>> I found the easiest way (graphically) was go to your
>> https://ovirtengine/api/disks and so a search for the illegal disk.
>> Append the extra ID eg. <diskhref="/api/disks/lk342-**dfsdf...
>>
>> into your URL this'll give you your image ID.
>>
>> Go to your storage share:
>> cd /data/storage-id/master/vms/**storage-id
>> grep -ir 'vmname' *
>> You'll find the image-id reference here too.
>>
>> Then the image you will want to remove is in the
>> /data/storage-id/images/image-**id
>> I assume you could safely remove this whole folder if you wanted to
>> delete the disk.
>>
>> To remove the illegal state I did it through the API so again with the
>> URL above https://ovirtengine/disks/**disk-id<https://ovirtengine/disks/disk-id>send a DELETE using HTTP/CURL
>>
>> Again, this was a poor mans solution but it worked for me.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Dan Ferris
>> <dferris at prometheusresearch.**com <dferris at prometheusresearch.com>
>> <mailto:dferris@**prometheusresearch.com <dferris at prometheusresearch.com>
>> >>wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I have another hopefully simple question.
>>
>>     One VM that I am trying to remove says that it's disk state is
>>     "illegal" and when I try to remove the disk it says that it failed
>>     to initiate the removing of the disk.
>>
>>     Is there an easy way to get rid of these illegal disk images?
>>
>>     Dan
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