[ovirt-users] VM's remain listed after cleanup and reinstall

[Omer Frenkel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jorick Astrego" <j.astrego at netbulae.eu>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 4:16:54 PM
> Subject: [ovirt-users] VM's remain listed after cleanup and reinstall
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Running ovirt 3.5rc1 All In One, there is something strange going on, where
> does ovirt store it's VM definitions?
> 
> I did an engine-cleanup and removed everything from /var/lib/images, but
> after a reinstall there are still test VM's listed in ovirt....
> 
> 
> history
> 
> 669 engine-cleanup
> 672 rm -rf /var/lib/images-*
> 673 rm -rf /var/lib/images/*
> 674 rm -rf /var/lib/exports/iso/*
> 676 engine-setup --jboss-home=/usr/share/ovirt-engine-jboss-as
> 
> I go to the engine:
> 
> Engine-cleanup drops the database, is there somewhere else they get stored?
> They are listed as external but there is nothing external hooked up to the
> ovirt (all in one)
> 

external means the engine discovered these vms are actually running on your host, but its not in the db,
so the engine import the information from vdsm.

you can just stop the vms and remove them.

but for next time
before you do cleanup, stop the vms :)

> Kind regards,
> 
> Jorick Astrego
> Netbulae
> 
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