[ovirt-users] problem importing ova vm

Jiří Sléžka jiri.slezka at slu.cz
Tue Feb 20 16:37:40 UTC 2018


On 02/20/2018 03:48 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 3:49 PM, Jiří Sléžka <jiri.slezka at slu.cz
> <mailto:jiri.slezka at slu.cz>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Arik,
> 
>     On 02/20/2018 01:22 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Jiří Sléžka <jiri.slezka at slu.cz <mailto:jiri.slezka at slu.cz>
>     > <mailto:jiri.slezka at slu.cz <mailto:jiri.slezka at slu.cz>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Hi,
>     >
>     >
>     > Hi Jiří,
>     >  
>     >
>     >
>     >     I would like to try import some ova files into our oVirt instance [1]
>     >     [2] but I facing problems.
>     >
>     >     I have downloaded all ova images into one of hosts (ovirt01) into
>     >     direcory /ova
>     >
>     >     ll /ova/
>     >     total 6532872
>     >     -rw-r--r--. 1 vdsm kvm 1160387072 Feb 16 16:21 HAAS-hpcowrie.ovf
>     >     -rw-r--r--. 1 vdsm kvm 1111785984 Feb 16 16:22 HAAS-hpdio.ova
>     >     -rw-r--r--. 1 vdsm kvm  846736896 Feb 16 16:22 HAAS-hpjdwpd.ova
>     >     -rw-r--r--. 1 vdsm kvm  891043328 Feb 16 16:23 HAAS-hptelnetd.ova
>     >     -rw-r--r--. 1 vdsm kvm  908222464 Feb 16 16:23 HAAS-hpuchotcp.ova
>     >     -rw-r--r--. 1 vdsm kvm  880643072 Feb 16 16:24 HAAS-hpuchoudp.ova
>     >     -rw-r--r--. 1 vdsm kvm  890833920 Feb 16 16:24 HAAS-hpuchoweb.ova
>     >
>     >     Then I tried to import them - from host ovirt01 and directory /ova but
>     >     spinner spins infinitly and nothing is happen.
>     >
>     >
>     > And does it work when you provide a path to the actual ova file, i.e.,
>     > /ova/HAAS-hpdio.ova, rather than to the directory?
> 
>     this time it ends with "Failed to load VM configuration from OVA file:
>     /ova/HAAS-hpdio.ova" error. 
> 
> 
> Note that the logic that is applied on a specified folder is "try
> fetching an 'ova folder' out of the destination folder" rather than
> "list all the ova files inside the specified folder". It seems that you
> expected the former output since there are no disks in that folder, right?

yes, It would be more user friendly to list all ova files and then
select which one to import (like listing all vms in vmware import)

Maybe description of path field in manager should be "Path to ova file"
instead of "Path" :-)

>     >     I cannot see anything relevant in vdsm log of host ovirt01.
>     >
>     >     In the engine.log of our standalone ovirt manager is just this
>     >     relevant line
>     >
>     >     2018-02-20 12:35:04,289+01 INFO
>     >     [org.ovirt.engine.core.common.utils.ansible.AnsibleExecutor] (default
>     >     task-31) [458990a7-b054-491a-904e-5c4fe44892c4] Executing Ansible
>     >     command: ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=ovaqueryplugin
>     >     [/usr/bin/ansible-playbook,
>     >     --private-key=/etc/pki/ovirt-engine/keys/engine_id_rsa,
>     >     --inventory=/tmp/ansible-inventory8237874608161160784,
>     >     --extra-vars=ovirt_query_ova_path=/ova,
>     >     /usr/share/ovirt-engine/playbooks/ovirt-ova-query.yml] [Logfile:
>     >     /var/log/ovirt-engine/ova/ovirt-query-ova-ansible-20180220123504-ovirt01.net
>     <http://ovirt-query-ova-ansible-20180220123504-ovirt01.net>
>     >     <http://20180220123504-ovirt01.net
>     <http://20180220123504-ovirt01.net>>.slu.cz.log]
>     >
>     >     also there are two ansible processes which are still running
>     (and makes
>     >     heavy load on system (load 9+ and growing, it looks like it
>     eats all the
>     >     memory and system starts swapping))
>     >
>     >     ovirt    32087  3.3  0.0 332252  5980 ?        Sl   12:35   0:41
>     >     /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/ansible-playbook
>     >     --private-key=/etc/pki/ovirt-engine/keys/engine_id_rsa
>     >     --inventory=/tmp/ansible-inventory8237874608161160784
>     >     --extra-vars=ovirt_query_ova_path=/ova
>     >     /usr/share/ovirt-engine/playbooks/ovirt-ova-query.yml
>     >     ovirt    32099 57.5 78.9 15972880 11215312 ?   R    12:35  11:52
>     >     /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/ansible-playbook
>     >     --private-key=/etc/pki/ovirt-engine/keys/engine_id_rsa
>     >     --inventory=/tmp/ansible-inventory8237874608161160784
>     >     --extra-vars=ovirt_query_ova_path=/ova
>     >     /usr/share/ovirt-engine/playbooks/ovirt-ova-query.yml
>     >
>     >     playbook looks like
>     >
>     >     - hosts: all
>     >       remote_user: root
>     >       gather_facts: no
>     >
>     >       roles:
>     >         - ovirt-ova-query
>     >
>     >     and it looks like it only runs query_ova.py but on all hosts?
>     >
>     >
>     > No, the engine provides ansible the host to run on when it
>     executes the
>     > playbook.
>     > It would only be executed on the selected host.
>     >  
>     >
>     >
>     >     How does this work? ...or should it work?
>     >
>     >
>     > It should, especially that part of querying the OVA and is supposed to
>     > be really quick.
>     > Can you please share the engine log and
>     >
>     /var/log/ovirt-engine/ova/ovirt-query-ova-ansible-20180220123504-ovirt01.net
>     <http://ovirt-query-ova-ansible-20180220123504-ovirt01.net>
>     > <http://20180220123504-ovirt01.net
>     <http://20180220123504-ovirt01.net>>.slu.cz.log ?
> 
>     engine log is here:
> 
>     https://pastebin.com/nWWM3UUq
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> Alright, so now the configuration is fetched but its processing fails.
> We fixed many issues in this area recently, but it appears that
> something is wrong with the actual size of the disk within the ovf file
> that resides inside this ova file.
> Can you please share that ovf file that resides inside /ova/HAAS-hpdio.ova?

file HAAS-hpdio.ova
HAAS-hpdio.ova: POSIX tar archive (GNU)

[root at ovirt01 backup]# tar xvf HAAS-hpdio.ova
HAAS-hpdio.ovf
HAAS-hpdio-disk001.vmdk

file HAAS-hpdio.ovf is here:

https://pastebin.com/80qAU0wB

>     file
>     /var/log/ovirt-engine/ova/ovirt-query-ova-ansible-20180220123504-ovirt01.net
>     <http://ovirt-query-ova-ansible-20180220123504-ovirt01.net>
>     in the fact does not exists (nor folder /var/log/ovirt-engine/ova/)
> 
> 
> This issue is also resolved in 4.2.2.
> In the meantime, please create the  /var/log/ovirt-engine/ova/ folder
> manually and make sure its permissions match the ones of the other
> folders in  /var/log/ovirt-engine.

ok, done. After another try there is this log file

/var/log/ovirt-engine/ova/ovirt-query-ova-ansible-20180220173005-ovirt01.net.slu.cz.log

https://pastebin.com/M5J44qur

>     Cheers,
> 
>     Jiri Slezka
> 
>     >  
>     >
>     >
>     >     I am using latest 4.2.1.7-1.el7.centos version
>     >
>     >     Cheers,
>     >     Jiri Slezka
>     >
>     >
>     >     [1] https://haas.cesnet.cz/#!index.md <https://haas.cesnet.cz/#!index.md>
>     >     <https://haas.cesnet.cz/#!index.md
>     <https://haas.cesnet.cz/#!index.md>> - Cesnet HAAS
>     >     [2] https://haas.cesnet.cz/downloads/release-01/
>     <https://haas.cesnet.cz/downloads/release-01/>
>     >     <https://haas.cesnet.cz/downloads/release-01/
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