[ovirt-users] Unable to start VM after upgrade vom 4.1.9 to 4.2.1 - NPE

[Arik Hadas]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 4:11 PM, Jan Siml <jsiml at plusline.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> we have upgrade one of our oVirt engines to 4.2.1 (from 4.1.9) and
> afterwards all nodes too. The cluster compatibility level has been set to
> 4.2.
>
> Now we can't start a VM after it has been powered off. The only hint we
> found in engine.log is:
>
> 2018-03-07 14:51:52,504+01 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbrok
> er.UpdateVmDynamicDataVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engine-Thread-25)
> [f855b54a-56d9-4708-8a67-5609438ddadb] START,
> UpdateVmDynamicDataVDSCommand( UpdateVmDynamicDataVDSCommandParameters:{hostId='null',
> vmId='a7bc4124-06cb-4909-9389-bcf727df1304', vmDynamic='
> org.ovirt.engine.core.common.businessentities.VmDynamic at 491983e9'}), log
> id: 7d49849e
> 2018-03-07 14:51:52,509+01 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbrok
> er.UpdateVmDynamicDataVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engine-Thread-25)
> [f855b54a-56d9-4708-8a67-5609438ddadb] FINISH,
> UpdateVmDynamicDataVDSCommand, log id: 7d49849e
> 2018-03-07 14:51:52,531+01 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.CreateVDSCommand]
> (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engine-Thread-25) [f855b54a-56d9-4708-8a67-5609438ddadb]
> START, CreateVDSCommand( CreateVDSCommandParameters:{ho
> stId='0add031e-c72f-473f-ab2f-4f7abd1f402b',
> vmId='a7bc4124-06cb-4909-9389-bcf727df1304', vm='VM [prod-hub-201]'}),
> log id: 4af1f227
> 2018-03-07 14:51:52,533+01 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbrok
> er.vdsbroker.CreateBrokerVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engine-Thread-25)
> [f855b54a-56d9-4708-8a67-5609438ddadb] START,
> CreateBrokerVDSCommand(HostName = prod-node-210,
> CreateVDSCommandParameters:{hostId='0add031e-c72f-473f-ab2f-4f7abd1f402b',
> vmId='a7bc4124-06cb-4909-9389-bcf727df1304', vm='VM [prod-hub-201]'}),
> log id: 71dcc8e7
> 2018-03-07 14:51:52,545+01 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbrok
> er.vdsbroker.CreateBrokerVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engine-Thread-25)
> [f855b54a-56d9-4708-8a67-5609438ddadb] Failed in 'CreateBrokerVDS'
> method, for vds: 'prod-node-210'; host: 'prod-node-210': null
> 2018-03-07 14:51:52,546+01 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbrok
> er.vdsbroker.CreateBrokerVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engine-Thread-25)
> [f855b54a-56d9-4708-8a67-5609438ddadb] Command
> 'CreateBrokerVDSCommand(HostName = prod-node-210,
> CreateVDSCommandParameters:{hostId='0add031e-c72f-473f-ab2f-4f7abd1f402b',
> vmId='a7bc4124-06cb-4909-9389-bcf727df1304', vm='VM
> [prod-hub-201]'})' execution failed: null
> 2018-03-07 14:51:52,546+01 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbrok
> er.vdsbroker.CreateBrokerVDSCommand] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engine-Thread-25)
> [f855b54a-56d9-4708-8a67-5609438ddadb] FINISH, CreateBrokerVDSCommand,
> log id: 71dcc8e7
> 2018-03-07 14:51:52,546+01 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.CreateVDSCommand]
> (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engine-Thread-25) [f855b5
> 4a-56d9-4708-8a67-5609438ddadb] Failed to create VM:
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.builder.vminfo.LibvirtVmXmlB
> uilder.lambda$writeInterfaces$23(LibvirtVmXmlBuilder.java:1066)
>  [vdsbroker.jar:]
>
> [...]
>
> But this doesn't lead us to the root cause. I haven't found any matching
> bug tickets in release notes for upcoming 4.2.1. Can anyone help here?
>

What's the mac address of that VM?
You can find it in the UI or with:

select mac_addr from vm_interface where vm_guid in (select vm_guid from
vm_static where vm_name='<vm_name>');


>
> Kind regards
>
> Jan Siml
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