> On 30 Mar 2016, at 11:49, Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:19:35PM +0300, Shahar Havivi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We encounter a problem in VDSM project that virt-v2v become zombie task while >> importing vm from vmware. >> When virt-v2v is in 'copy disk' mode and we someone deletes the vm at vmware >> the process hang in read() method, >> I am pretty sure that its not virt-v2v problem because when I run it from the >> shell virt-v2v exit with an error, still maybe someone have an idea.... >> >> I wrote a small python script that encounter the problem: >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> from cpopen import CPopen >> >> env = {'LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND': 'direct'} >> cmd = ['/usr/bin/virt-v2v', '-ic', >> 'vpx://....', '-o', >> 'local', '-os', '/tmp', '-of', 'raw', '-oa', 'sparse', >> '--password-file', '/tmp/passwd', '--machine-readable', 'bbb'] >> p = CPopen(cmd, env=env) >> while p.returncode is None: >> c = p.stdout.read(1) >> print c >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > An actual zombie task? That would indicate that the parent process > (your Python program) wasn't doing a wait system call. > > I downloaded the cpopen-1.4 program, and it doesn't appear to call any > of the wait*(2) system calls anywhere, so that could be the problem.
I suppose the cpopen parameters are not alright…I’m sure vdsm developers can help with that. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a > live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. > http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
