Thanks a ton for the reply Matthias. I am little confused here. How to add volume on my esx server using virsh? I did SCP and copied my vmdk image to [datastore1] testNode/cluster.vmdk and also modified my xml file as you suggested. Now when I tried starting the node it gave me an error message saying:
"error: Failed to start testNode error: internal error: Could not start domain: GenericVmConfigFault - Failed to start the virtual machine." How to resolve this? Regards, Varun On 13 Aug 2013 13:21, "Matthias Bolte" <matthias.bo...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2013/8/12 varun bhatnagar <varun292...@gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > > > Today I was trying to start a node using libvirt on ESX (esxi-5.1) > > hypervisor and I got the following error message: > > > > virsh # define /local/myNode/esxdomain.xml > > Domain testNode defined from /local/myNode/esxdomain.xml > > virsh # start testNode > > error: Failed to start domain testNode > > error: internal error: Could not start domain: GenericVmConfigFault - > Cannot > > open the disk /vmfs/volues/5208f99d-760cf4a2-000c29520788/testNode.vmdk > or > > one of the snapshot disks it depends on. > > > > > > I checked the datastore of my ESX server and found out that instead of > file > > one directory is getting created with the name cluster.vmdk and inside it > > there are few more files but cluster.vmdk file is not there. > > > > /vmfs/volumes # cd datastore1 > > /vmfs/volues/5208f99d-760cf4a2-000c29520788 # ls > > cluster.vmdk > > /vmfs/volues/5208f99d-760cf4a2-000c29520788 # cd cluster.vmdk > > /vmfs/volues/5208f99d-760cf4a2-000c29520788/cluster.vmdk # ls -ltr > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 261 Aug 12 17:30 cluster.vmdk > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 674 Aug 12 17:30 cluster.vmx > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 12 17:30 cluster.vmsd > > /vmfs/volues/5208f99d-760cf4a2-000c29520788/cluster.vmdk # > > Okay, libvirt should not have created a directory named cluster.vmdk, > I think there is a bug, but I can't test it at the moment because my > ESX setup is unavailable due to a hardware failure. > > > Can anyone tell me how to start a node and why I am getting that error > > message. > > Below is my xml file. > > > > <domain type='vmware'> > > <name>testNode</name> > > <uuid>50115e16-9bdc-49d7-f171-53c4d7f91710</uuid> > > <memory>1048576</memory> > > <currentMemory>1048576</currentMemory> > > <vcpu>1</vcpu> > > <os> > > <type arch='x86_64'>hvm</type> > > </os> > > <devices> > > <disk type='file' device='disk'> > > <source file='[datastore1] cluster.vmdk'/> > > Here is a problem. Typically all files of a virtual machine should be > located in a subdirectory named after the virtual machine. But you > placed the VMDK file in the datastore root. I think this confused > libvirt. This should read > > <source file='[datastore1] testNode/cluster.vmdk'/> > > instead. Also "virsh define" cannot create this VMDK file for you if > it doesn't exist already, because there is not enough information in > the domain XML. You need to do this yourself using "virsh vol-create". > > I suggest you delete the cluster.vmdk directory from the datastore and > start over with the domain XML modified as suggested, but create > "[datastore1] testNode/cluster.vmdk" before defining the virtual > machine. > > -- > Matthias Bolte > http://photron.blogspot.com >
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