Hey...I tried adding volume..got one xml snippet which you only posted and I modified it according to my node configuration:
< volume> <name>testNode/cluster.vmdk </name> <allocation>0 </allocation> <capacity unit='G'>2<capacity> </volume> Now when I executed "virsh vol-create datastore1 /local/new_volume.xml" one error message came saying: "Error: Failed to create volume from /local/new_volume.xml" Error: internal error: Creation of raw volumes is not supported" How can I resolve this? Regards, Varun On 13 Aug 2013 14:45, "varun bhatnagar" <varun292...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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