[ovirt-users] problem importing ova vm

Jiří Sléžka jiri.slezka at slu.cz
Wed Feb 21 14:43:25 UTC 2018


On 02/20/2018 11:09 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 6:37 PM, Jiří Sléžka <jiri.slezka at slu.cz
> <mailto:jiri.slezka at slu.cz>> wrote:
> 
>     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>
>     > <mailto: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>>
>     >     > <mailto: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" :-)
> 
> 
> Sorry, I obviously meant 'latter' rather than 'former' before..
> Yeah, I agree that would be better, at least until listing the OVA files
> in the folder is implemented (that was the original plan, btw) - could
> you please file a bug?

yes, sure


>     >     >     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://ovirt-query-ova-ansible-20180220123504-ovirt01.net
>     <http://ovirt-query-ova-ansible-20180220123504-ovirt01.net>>
>     >     >     <http://20180220123504-ovirt01.net
>     <http://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://ovirt-query-ova-ansible-20180220123504-ovirt01.net
>     <http://ovirt-query-ova-ansible-20180220123504-ovirt01.net>>
>     >     > <http://20180220123504-ovirt01.net
>     <http://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
> 
> 
> Thanks again.
> So that seems to be a VM that was exported from Virtual Box, right?
> They don't do anything that violates the OVF specification but they do
> some non-common things that we don't anticipate:

yes, it is most likely ova from VirtualBox

> First, they don't specify the actual size of the disk and the current
> code in oVirt relies on that property.
> There is a workaround for this though: you can extract an OVA file, edit
> its OVF configuration - adding ovf:populatedSize="X" (and change
> ovf:capacity as I'll describe next) to the Disk element inside the
> DiskSection and pack the OVA again (tar cvf <ovf_file> <disk_file) where
> X is either:
> 1. the actual size of the vmdk file + some buffer (iirc, we used to take
> 15% of extra space for the conversion)
> 2. if you're using a file storage or you don't mind consuming more
> storage space on your block storage, simply set X to the virtual size of
> the disk (in bytes) as indicated by the ovf:capacity filed, e.g.,
> ovf:populatedSize="21474836480" in the case of HAAS-hpdio.ova.
> 
> Second, the virtual size (indicated by ovf:capacity) is specified in
> bytes. The specification says that the default unit of allocation shall
> be bytes, but practically every OVA file that I've ever saw specified it
> in GB and the current code in oVirt kind of assumes that this is the
> case without checking the ovf:capacityAllocationUnits attribute that
> could indicate the real unit of allocation [1].
> Anyway, long story short, the virtual size of the disk should currently
> be specified in GB, e.g., ovf:populatedSize="20" in the case of
> HAAS-hpdio.ova.

wow, thanks for this excellent explanation. I have changed this in ovf file

...
<Disk ovf:capacity="20" ovf:diskId="vmdisk2" ovf:populatedSize="20" ...
...

then I was able to import this mofified ova file (HAAS-hpdio_new.ova).
Interesting thing is that the vm was shown in vm list for while (with
state down with lock and status was initializing). After while this vm
disapeared :-o

I am going to test it again and collect some logs...

> That should do it. If not, please share the OVA file and I will examine
> it in my environment.

original file is at

https://haas.cesnet.cz/downloads/release-01/HAAS-hpdio.ova

> 
> [1] https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/blob/master/backend/manager/modules/utils/src/main/java/org/ovirt/engine/core/utils/ovf/OvfOvaReader.java#L220
> 
> 
> 
>     >     file
>     >   
>      /var/log/ovirt-engine/ova/ovirt-query-ova-ansible-20180220123504-ovirt01.net
>     <http://ovirt-query-ova-ansible-20180220123504-ovirt01.net>
>     >     <http://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
>     <http://20180220173005-ovirt01.net>.slu.cz.log
> 
>     https://pastebin.com/M5J44qur
> 
> 
> Is it the log of the execution of the ansible playbook that was provided
> with a path to the /ova folder?
> I'm interested in that in order to see how comes that its execution
> never completed.

well, I dont think so, it is log from import with full path to ova file



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