[ovirt-users] low level Image copy failed

Jonas Israelsson jonas.israelsson at elementary.se
Sun Oct 23 18:57:14 UTC 2016


On 23/10/16 20:06, Nir Soffer wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Jonas Israelsson
> <jonas.israelsson at elementary.se> wrote:
>> Greetings.
>>
>> We are in the process of migrating from oVirt 3.6 to 4.0. To properly test
>> 4.0 we have setup a parallel 4.0 environment.
>>
>> For the non critical vm:s we thought we try the "export vms --> move storage
>> domain to the other DC --> import vms" method.
>>
>> While many imports are successful quite a few fails with 'low level Image
>> copy failed'
>>
>> One of these vm impossible to import have the following disk layout.
>>
>> * Disk 1 - 100GB  (Thin)
>>
>> * Disk2 - 32GB (Preallocated)
> According to the volume .meta file bellow, this is COW/SPARSE,
> not preallocated.
It's because I'm an idiot and gave you information about the wrong disk. 
My apologizes..

$ /usr/bin/qemu-img.org info 
/rhev/data-center/9d200b26-359e-48b6-972a-90da179e4829/61842ad9-42da-40a9-8ec8-dd7807a82916/images/9eb60288-27b6-4fb1-aef1-4246455d588e/ddf8b402-514c-4a3c-9683-26810a7c41c0

image: 
/rhev/data-center/9d200b26-359e-48b6-972a-90da179e4829/61842ad9-42da-40a9-8ec8-dd7807a82916/images/9eb60288-27b6-4fb1-aef1-4246455d588e/ddf8b402-514c-4a3c-9683-26810a7c41c0
file format: raw
virtual size: 35G (37849399296 bytes)
disk size: 35G


[root at patty tmp]# cat 
/rhev/data-center/9d200b26-359e-48b6-972a-90da179e4829/61842ad9-42da-40a9-8ec8-dd7807a82916/images/9eb60288-27b6-4fb1-aef1-4246455d588e/ddf8b402-514c-4a3c-9683-26810a7c41c0.meta 

DOMAIN=61842ad9-42da-40a9-8ec8-dd7807a82916
VOLTYPE=LEAF
CTIME=1476880543
FORMAT=RAW
IMAGE=9eb60288-27b6-4fb1-aef1-4246455d588e
DISKTYPE=2
PUUID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
LEGALITY=LEGAL
MTIME=0
POOL_UUID=
SIZE=67108864
TYPE=PREALLOCATED
DESCRIPTION=
EOF



>
> Can you share the original vm disk metadata before the export?
Could you please instruct me how to ? It's on a FC-LUN so it's then 
hiding on a lv somewhere. I could perhaps just move it to an nfs data 
domain .. ?
> Looking at the metadata before the export, after the export, and after
> the import, we can understand what is the root cause.
>
> It will be hard to find the metadata after the failed copy since vdsm try
> hard to clean up after errors, but the information should be available
> in vdsm log.
Yes I noticed, hence the qemu-img wrapper
>> * Disk3 - 32GB (Thin)
>>
>> Where the two thin disk (1 & 3) are successfully imported but disk2, the
>> preallocated always fail.
>>
> ...
>> and from vdsm.log
>>
> ...
>> CopyImageError: low level Image copy failed: ('ecode=1, stdout=,
>> stderr=qemu-img: error while writing sector 73912303: No space left on
>> device\n, message=None',)
> We need log from the entire flow, starting at "Run and protect: copyImage..."
>
> ...
>> The first checking the size of the image (37849399296) , and the second the
>> size of logical volume (34359738368) just created to hold this image.
>> And as you can see the volume is smaller in size than the image it should
>> hold, whereas we are under the impression something made an incorrect
>> decision when creating that volume.
> The destination image size depend on the destination format. If the destination
> is preallocated, the logical volume size *must* be the virtual size
> (32G). If it is
> sparse, the logical volume should be the file size on the export domain (35G).
>
> According to your findings, we created a destination image for a preallocated
> disk (32G), and then tried to run "qemu-img convert" with qcow2 format as
> both source and destination. However this is only a guess, since I don't have
> the log showing the actual qemu-img command.
12:37:15 685557156   ---   Identifier: 51635 , Arguments: convert -p -t 
none -T none -f raw 
/rhev/data-center/9d200b26-359e-48b6-972a-90da179e4829/61842ad9-42da-40a9-8ec8-dd7807a82916/images/9eb60288-27b6-4fb1-aef1-4246455d588e/ddf8b402-514c-4a3c-9683-26810a7c41c0 
-O raw 
/rhev/data-center/mnt/blockSD/cb64e1fc-98b6-4b8c-916e-418d05bcd467/images/a1d70c22-cace-48d2-9809-caadc70b77e7/71f5fe82-81dd-47e9-aa3f-1a66622db4cb
> Please share complete engine and vdsm logs showing the entire flow.
http://whs1.elementary.se/logs.tar.gz
In vdsm.log search for  12:37:15



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