[Users] SPICE causes migration failure?

Dafna Ron dron at redhat.com
Tue Mar 4 10:08:24 UTC 2014


Thanks Ted,

Please send logs to the user's list since others may help if I am off line

Thanks,

Dafna


On 03/03/2014 11:48 PM, Ted Miller wrote:
> Dafna, I will get the logs to you when I get a chance.  I have an 
> intern to keep busy this week, and that gets higher priority than 
> oVirt (unfortunately).  Ted Miller
>
> 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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>>
>>
>


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Dafna Ron



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