[ovirt-users] VM Import problems

[Donny Davis]

So should I detach the domain, update the tarball then reattach it.

The problem lies with machines that have already been imported once before. 

ThanksOn Feb 6, 2015 3:23 PM, Greg Padgett <gpadgett at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/05/2015 04:37 PM, Donny Davis wrote: 
> > I need some help getting my users vm’s imported back into the system after 
> > the failure yesterday. I reattached the storage and half of the vm’s 
> > imported without issue. The other half of the vms give this error 
> > 
> > Error while executing action: Cannot import VM. Storage Domain doesn't exist 
> > 
> > Funny part is, I only had one storage domain… and I imported it back into 
> > the engine… I’m confused. 
> > 
> > Donny 
> > 
> > 
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>
> Hi Donny, 
>
> Are there any additional details accompanying this error in the engine 
> log?  It sounds like a bug, just not yet sure where to look. 
>
> As for a possible hack/workaround (maybe someone else will have a 
> safer/easier idea here!), the OVFs holding the domain ids in question are 
> in a tarball on the imported storage.  If the import failure is happening 
> because the storageId in the OVFs is wrong, it should be possible to 
> update them to the correct value and retry the import. 
>
> Note that by default the tarball is on the storage in 2 places--I'd change 
> them both, but of course don't forget to make a backup first. 
>
> HTH, 
> Greg 
>