[Users] SPICE causes migration failure?

[Sahina Bose]

On 03/05/2014 03:14 AM, Ted Miller wrote:
>
> On 3/3/2014 12:26 PM, Dafna Ron wrote:
>> I don't see a reason why open monitor will fail migration - at most, 
>> if there is a problem I would close the spice session on src and 
>> restarted it at the dst.
>> can you please attach vdsm/libvirt/qemu logs from both hosts and 
>> engine logs so that we can see the migration failure reason?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dafna
>>
>>
>>
>> On 03/03/2014 05:16 PM, Ted Miller wrote:
>>> I just got my Data Center running again, and am proceeding with some 
>>> setup & testing.
>>>
>>> I created a VM (not doing anything useful)
>>> I clicked on the "Console" and had a SPICE console up (viewed in Win7).
>>> I had it printing the time on the screen once per second (while 
>>> date;do sleep 1; done).
>>> I tried to migrate the VM to another host and got in the GUI:
>>>
>>> Migration started (VM: web1, Source: s1, Destination: s3, User: 
>>> admin at internal).
>>>
>>> Migration failed due to Error: Fatal error during migration (VM: 
>>> web1, Source: s1, Destination: s3).
>>>
>>> As I started the migration I happened to think "I wonder how they 
>>> handle the SPICE console, since I think that is a link from the host 
>>> to my machine, letting me see the VM's screen."
>>>
>>> After the failure, I tried shutting down the SPICE console, and 
>>> found that the migration succeeded.  I again opened SPICE and had a 
>>> migration fail.  Closed SPICE, migration failed.
>>>
>>> I can understand how migrating SPICE is a problem, but, at least 
>>> could we give the victim of this condition a meaningful error 
>>> message?  I have seen a lot of questions about failed migrations 
>>> (mostly due to attached CDs), but I have never seen this discussed. 
>>> If I had not had that particular thought cross my brain at that 
>>> particular time, I doubt that SPICE would have been where I went 
>>> looking for a solution.
>>>
>>> If this is the first time this issue has been raised, I am willing 
>>> to file a bug.
>>>
>>> Ted Miller
>>> Elkhart, IN, USA
>>>
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>>
>>
> In finding the right one-minute slice of the logs, I saw something 
> that makes me think this is due to a missing method in the glusterfs 
> support.  Others who understand more of what the logs are saying can 
> verify or correct my hunch.


If you are referring to 'method "glusterTasksList" is not supported' 
error reported in the logs - this is not related to the migration 
failure. This is used to monitor gluster asynchronous tasks like 
rebalance and should not affect anything else.


>
> Was trying to migrate from s2 to s1.
>
> Logs on fpaste.org:
> http://ur1.ca/gr48c
> http://ur1.ca/gr48r
> http://ur1.ca/gr493
> http://ur1.ca/gr49e
> http://ur1.ca/gr49i
> http://ur1.ca/gr49x
> http://ur1.ca/gr4a6
>
> Ted Miller
> Elkhart, IN, USA
>
>
>
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