On 06.02.13 14:36, Emilio Del Plato wrote:
> I am still getting a warning after setting the Duplicate macs to true
> (engine-config --set AllowDuplicateMacAddresses=true), yet now the VMs still
> fail to import. I don't see anything obvious in the engine.log, any other
> ideas as to where to look?
The warnings are for you to note,
but now you can import VMs with existing MAC addresses right?
>
> --
> Emilio
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Alexandre Santos
> Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 6:00 AM
> To: Nicolas Ecarnot
> Cc: Shahar Havivi; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Users] MAC in use when importing/cloning a VM
>
> 2013/2/6 Nicolas Ecarnot <[email protected]>:
> > Le 06/02/2013 09:26, Shahar Havivi a écrit :
> >>
> >> On 06.02.13 08:36, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Le 05/02/2013 21:47, Itamar Heim a écrit :
> >>>>
> >>>> you should be able to import as 'new' which will re-create all
> >>>> uuid's/mac/etc.
> >>>> otherwise, just edit the ovf.
> >>>> cc-ing moti to consider something better going forward
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thank you to Shahar for your advice about the MAC address check.
> >>> I tried that, restarted the engine, but i failed the same.
> >>
> >> That should work..., if not its a bug
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I also tried Itamar's advice but here is what's happening:
> >>> - In the import windows, I select the VM, the system finds out the
> >>> destination cluster and storage.
> >>> - I then check the option "Clone All VMs" : the "suffix" option
> >>>
> >>> appears, pre-filled with "_Copy".
> >>> - I already used it and it was working fine. This time, when
> >>> validating with "OK", the "Suffix" field gets colored into yellow
> >>> and I can not validate.
> >>> - I tried to change its content to something else but it has no effect.
> >>> - Of course, I already spent some times grepping the logs file
> >>> searching for the MAC, but did not find anything obvious.
> >>> - When the yellow border appears, nothing special is showing in the logs.
> >>>
> >>> So here, oVirt is trying to tell me something, but what?
> >>
> >> This is probably UI validation that failed to present the text.
> >> Try to rename the xxx_Copy to xxx_Copy2 or any other name that is not
> >> in use.
> >
> >
> > I already tried that, with no benefit.
> >
> > I spent some more time on that and here what I found :
> >
> > * 1 *
> > When trying to import a VM by cloning it and using a suffix (whatever
> > suffix), I get NO error in log (neither on the manager, nor in the
> > nodes), but I'm stuck with the yellow border around the suffix field,
> > and no way to validate my choice.
> >
> > * 2 *
> > I succeed in importing directly the VM by NOT checking the "Clone All VMs"
> > box, and by checking the "Collapse All snapshots" box. Indeed, I found
> > in engine.log an error about snapshots, an INSERT was tried into the
> > database with a broken constrain key and a
> > '000000000000000000.0000.blah.blah.blah'
> > snapshot reference.
> > Checking this box allowed a correct import of the VM.
> >
> > Conclusion :
> > - Point 1 : I consider it would be nice to inform the user about
> > what's wrong, at least in the log files
> > - Point 2 : When not checking to collapse snapshot box, the import is
> > failing with an error speaking about a duplicated MAC address.
> > This is wrong.
> >
> > Thank you to Shahar, Itamar and Alex who answered.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Nicolas Ecarnot
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> Hi again,
> I simply looked on every VM listed on the UI for that MAC, not directly on
> the database. That was how I discovered that the MAC was changed when moving
> it to the export storage,
>
> Alex
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