[ovirt-users] Unable to move disk on (non-)stateless machine

[Tomas Jelinek]

----- Original Message -----
> From: nicolas at devels.es
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 7:14:22 PM
> Subject: [ovirt-users] Unable to move disk on (non-)stateless machine
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We're running oVirt 3.6.3.4-1. We have 2 storage domains of the same
> kind (both iSCSI). We're moving some of the disks from one to other,
> preferably without shutting down the machine. When moving a disk with
> the VM started, the following error is thrown:
> 
>      Error while executing action: Cannot move Virtual Machine Disk. The
> VM is running as Stateless. Please try again when VM is not running as
> Stateless.
> 
> This machine is inside a VM pool based on a template that is not
> stateless, nor is the VM pool, nor the VM itself.
> 
> In [1]: template = api.templates.get(name='templatename')
> In [2]: template.get_stateless()
> Out[2]: False
> 
> In [3]: vm = api.vms.get(name='vmname')
> In [4]: vm.get_stateless()
> Out[4]: False
> 
> Additionally, in the General tab of the VM Pool:
> 
>      Is Stateless:    false
> 
> If nothing is stateless, why is the error shown?

The VMs in a pool are always stateless. 
There is an RFE [1] making the pools stateful, but not yet implemented.

But the reporting is not correct, we should not report they are stateless if they are not.
Can you please open a bug for this?
Thank you!

[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234394

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Nicolás
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