[ovirt-users] Ubuntu guest doesn't reboot properly

[Jiri Belka]

> From: "Alan Murrell" <lists at murrell.ca>
> To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 11:34:40 AM
> Subject: [ovirt-users] Ubuntu guest doesn't reboot properly
> 
> I have an Ubuntu 14.04 guest (actually Zentyal server).  Guest additions
> are installed from respository (and even displays the extra info like IP
> address, host name, memory use) in the oVirt dash board.
> 
> Whenever I either reboot the guest or shut it down, it never seems to
> come up properly.  It shows that it is powered on and it responds to
> ping, but I cannot SSH in (says connection refused).  The SPICE console
> display just shows black with some slightly coloured bars in the upper
> left of the screen, so I am unable to determine what stage of the boot
> process it is on and/or if it is even at a login screen.
> 
> I have a Windows 7 guest VM that reboots with no issue.  I currently do
> not have another Linux guest VM to test with, but I plan on installing a
> Debian guest, CentOS guest, as well as a "vanilla" Ubuntu 14.04 guest to
> see if it is a Linux thing, and Ubuntu thing, or just something odd with
> the Zentyal spin of Ubuntu.
> 
> I will report on my results (it may take a bit), but I wanted to check
> here to see if anyone else has already troubleshot this and what the
> findings and conclusions were?

There's ovirt guest agent log in /var/log, please check it out.
Also check vdsm.log on host to see if reboot was in operation.
And last thing - what version do you have of your environment?
Are all using latest versions? If not, update first...

j.