[ovirt-users] Re: Unable to start VM - Image is not a legal chain

2018-09-13 Thread Alex K
Hi all, coming back on this I did experience again the issue and the referred link was useful to restore the VMs. https://www.mail-archive.com/users@ovirt.org/msg49300.html I followed the steps to delete the illegal snapshot while the VM was down. I now have again the issue with other 3 VMs whic

[ovirt-users] Re: Unable to start VM - Image is not a legal chain

2018-07-12 Thread Alex K
Thank you Nicolas. I will keep this for future reference in case I encounter this again. Now I don't have the corrupted VM to experiment. Thanx, Alex On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:28 AM, wrote: > Hi Alex, > > We had a bigger problem recently which involved the error you mention. I > sent it to the

[ovirt-users] Re: Unable to start VM - Image is not a legal chain

2018-07-11 Thread nicolas
Hi Alex, We had a bigger problem recently which involved the error you mention. I sent it to the mail list and you can find the final solution we chose at [1]. Not the cleanest solution of course, but we managed to recover all VMs... I think in your case the relevant part is the one that menti

[ovirt-users] Re: Unable to start VM - Image is not a legal chain

2018-07-11 Thread Alex K
Due to urgency of the case, I fetched the backup copy from weekend and proceeded to push missing data to VM (the VM is a git repo). I lost few notes, though not much damage was done... I'm starting to feel uncomfortable with this solution though and might switch (at least the production VMs) to pla

[ovirt-users] Re: Unable to start VM - Image is not a legal chain

2018-07-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
(Changing subject, adding Freddy) On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 8:06 PM, Alex K wrote: > Hi all, > > I did a routine maintenance today (updating the hosts) to ovirt cluster > (4.2) and I have one VM that was complaining about an invalid snapshot. > After shutdown of VM the VM is not able to start agai