Dear Filippo, What I find strange is that the snapshot create operation fails because it cannot find the snapshot it is trying to create. Isn't that the error message from the snapshot-revert operation? Maybe we should forward this to the libvirt mailing list.
Regards, -Tino -- Constantino Vázquez Blanco | dsa-research.org/tinova Virtualization Technology Engineer / Researcher OpenNebula Toolkit | opennebula.org On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Filippo Dalla Gassa <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Tino, > > the MAC address is correctly assigned from leases, but probably the > vmcontext.sh is not executed at boot (maybe rc2.d is not the correct > runlevel for Ubuntu Server). > > With regard to the snapshot problem, I can confirm that when I execute the > command virsh -c gsx://<host-name>?no_verify=1 snapshot-create > $ONE_LOCATION/lib/remotes/vmm/vmware/checkpoint, executed also in the "save" > vmware script, it gives me the error > > "Domain snapshot not found: Could not find snapshot with name > 'checkpoint'" > > In my opinion this is because it creates the snapshot (in fact if I use > virsh snapshot-list there is a snapshot) but it gives the snapshot a totally > different name, in my case "VMware Server Undopoint", and not the name that > I decide. If I comment out the lines with virsh snapshot-create in the > "save" script I'm able to stop the machine correctly, so the problem is > precisely snapshot-create. > > Regards, > > Filippo Dalla Gassa > > Il 13/01/2011 17:23, Tino Vazquez ha scritto: > > Dear Filippo, > > comments inline, > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Filippo Dalla Gassa > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Tino, > thanks for your answer, but problems remain. > > 1) Network problem: I followed what > "http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.0:cong" says. > > copied the vmcontext.sh file in the /etc/init.d directory of the disk used > by the VM > created the link to vmcontext.sh in /etc/rc2.d > > However, when I start vm with opennebula, it seems opennebula assigned an IP > from leases of the VN, but ping fails and if I enter the virtual machine via > VI Client I see that the real assigned IP is totally different. > > Please note that different linux flavors have different startup > schemas, maybe this is what is happening. Does the MAC address get > correctly set? > > 2) Snapshot problem: I made some tests and found this: if I try to make a > snapshot directly with virsh snapshot-create it gives to me this error > "Domain snapshot not found: Could not find snapshot with name '1294913536'" > (I let him assign a name). The strange thing is that VI Client gives me no > error message, like all goes well. Moreover if I go into > $ONE_LOCATION/var/<VMID>/images/disk.0/ directory I see two files, > one-<VMID>-Snapshot1.vmem and one-<VMID>-Snapshot1.vmsn, and if try to > revert to snapshot the VM through VI Client it detects correctly the > snapshot. > > So the create functionality with virsh doesn't work (this is what > opennebula vmware drivers uses in the save state)? Or is it the virsh > snapshot-revert? > > Regards, > > -Tino > > > Regards, > > Filippo Dalla Gassa > > Il 11/01/2011 18:58, Tino Vazquez ha scritto: > > Dear Filippo, > > Let's see ... > > 1) The network problem is probably related to a bad contextualization > of the VM. have ou set the vmcontext.sh script [see then end of 1] ? > > 2) VM monitoring in VMware is quite minimal, it just detects if the VM > is still running or not > > 3) This may be due to an undeleted checkpoint file. Could you please > use the VI Client to find out the exact error message? > > Regards, > > -Tino > > > [1] http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.0:vgg > -- > Constantino Vázquez Blanco | dsa-research.org/tinova > Virtualization Technology Engineer / Researcher > OpenNebula Toolkit | opennebula.org > > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Filippo Dalla Gassa > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I create a vm with this template > > NAME = "Ubuntu-Server" > > MEMORY = 512 > > CPU = 1 > > VCPU = 1 > > OS = [ > ARCH = i686 > ] > > DISK = [ > IMAGE = "Ubuntu Server" > ] > > NIC = [NETWORK = "Public"] > > NIC = [NETWORK = "Other"] > > After the vm goes running I try to ping the IP address assigned to the vm > but the result is "Destination host is unreachable". Also if I use onevm > show I see all monitored values (memory, cpu, net_tx, net_rx) are 0 > (possible there is no activity?) and in log file they result as -1, so for > some reason it can't monitor the vm (but it can monitor the host). Finally I > can't stop the virtual machine, if I try the state remains "running" and log > file says > > Mon Jan 10 10:34:51 2011 [LCM][I]: New VM state is SAVE_STOP > Mon Jan 10 10:35:22 2011 [VMM][E]: Error saving VM state, - > Mon Jan 10 10:35:22 2011 [LCM][I]: Fail to save VM state. Assuming that the > VM is still RUNNING (will poll VM). > > I use vmware server as hypervisor, what can I do? > > Regardly, > > -- > Filippo Dalla Gassa > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > > > > > > -- > Constantino Vázquez Blanco | dsa-research.org/tinova > Virtualization Technology Engineer / Researcher > OpenNebula Toolkit | opennebula.org > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org
