[ovirt-users] Cancelling a running task

Liron Aravot laravot at redhat.com
Wed Nov 5 07:51:37 EST 2014



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eli Mesika" <emesika at redhat.com>
> To: "Daniel Lang" <Daniel.Lang at redi.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 2:23:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Cancelling a running task
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Daniel Lang" <Daniel.Lang at redi.com>
> > To: "users at ovirt.org" <users at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2014 6:24:48 PM
> > Subject: [ovirt-users] Cancelling a running task
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I am creating a VM and the copy from template operation has gone haywire
> > causing significant performance issues on the host server. I’d like to
> > cancel the copying image action (it’s been running ~3hours on a 3GB disk
> > image copy) but I cannot find anything in the web UI to cancel a task. Is
> > there a command line tool to cancel the running task?
> 
> login to your SPM host and run the following
> 
> vdsClient -s 0 getAllTasksStatuses
> 
> You can than use
> 
> stopTask
>         <TaskID>
>         stop async task
> 
> and then
> 
> clearTask
>         <TaskID>
>         clear async task
> 
> 
> 
I suggest to only stop the task/tasks and let the ovirt engine to perform the clearance of the tasks.

> > 
> > 
> > 
> > The oVirt version is 3.4 and vdsm version 4.14.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for any advice or links to documentation/man pages.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Daniel Lang
> > 
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