[Users] Help - Cannot run VM. Invalid time zone for given OS type.

[Patrick Hurrelmann]

On 02.01.2014 20:12, Dan Ferris wrote:> Hi,
>
> Has anyone run across this error:
>
> Cannot run VM. Invalid time zone for given OS type.
>
> The OS type for these VMs is set to Linux Other.  They were all exported
> from an Ovirt 3.2 cluster and are being reimported into an Ovirt 3.3
> cluster.  None of these VMs will boot.  We also can't delete them
> because delete protection is enabled and we can't edit the VM to turn
> off delete protection.
>
> Does anyone know what this error means exactly and how to fix it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan

Hi Dan,

I had the very problem myself. The fix for it is quite easy, but
requires manual editing of one database table.

In table "vm_static" find your non-starting vms (they propably all have
an empty string set as timezone in column "time_zone") and update that
column to null. There was a recent change in the timezone code and it
now fails when the timezone is an empty string, but works fine if it null.

Regards
Patrick

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