I've narrowed it down to an issue with the "quiesced" parameter. It does not matter if the RAM is snapshotted, so I'll leave that out.
Creating a snapshot without quiescing works fine: ~ # time vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.create 128 TestSnap Blah 0 0 Create Snapshot: real 0m 2.07s user 0m 0.20s sys 0m 0.00s However, turning on "quiesced" will fail: ~ # time vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.create 128 TestSnap Blah 0 1 Create Snapshot: Create snapshot failed real 0m 16.29s user 0m 0.23s sys 0m 0.00s After this the VM will become unresponsive and the console displays lots of messages like this. task xxx:123 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this. I will install a VM with the supported tools to check that it works there. I'll file a bug report for Ubuntu's open-vm-tools package. On 28 July 2010 23:54, Marcelo Vanzin <mvan...@vmware.com> wrote: > On 07/28/2010 02:36 PM, Dyonisius Visser wrote: >>> The only thing I can guess here is that you have the vmsync module loaded. >>> Check >>> it with "lsmod", and disable it if it's loaded; it's currently an >>> experimental >>> module and has some issues in current releases. >> >> By just removing the vmsync module, I get this in Vcenter when trying >> to backup with VCB: >> >> "Create virtual machine snapshot Wowza >> Cannot create a quiesced snapshot because the create snapshot >> operation exceeded the time limit for holding off I/O in the frozen >> virtual machine. > > Have you tried with the official VMware-distributed Tools? > > As I mentioned before, the Tools distributed by Ubuntu are based on unstable > snapshots of our internal source code, and there might be issues since they've > not been through our internal QA testing. > > This is probably something that will be fixed in the development cycle leading > to the next stable VMware release, but is not something that's guaranteed to > work with these unstable snapshots. > > -- > - Marcelo > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list open-vm-tools-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
