On Wednesday, 22 September 2021 18:09:28 CEST Shantur Rathore wrote: > I have actually tried many types of storage now and all have this issue.
This is weird. Could you please use file-based storage (e.g. NFS) and post here whole exceptions from vdsm log (/var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log) and qemu log (/var/ log/libvirt/qemu/vm_name.log) from the host which runs the VM? Hopefully this will give us some hint what is the real issue there. Thanks Vojta > > I am not of ideas what to do > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 4:39 PM Shantur Rathore > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Nir, > > > > > > > > Just to report. > > As suggested, I created a Posix compliant storage domain with CephFS > > and copied my templates to CephFS. > > Now I created VMs from CephFS templates and the storage error happens > > again. As I understand, the storage growth issue is only on iSCSI. > > > > > > > > Am I doing something wrong? > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > Shantur > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 2:42 PM Nir Soffer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 4:24 PM Arik Hadas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 2:56 PM Benny Zlotnik <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > If your vm is temporary and you like to drop the data written > > > >> > while > > > >> > the vm is running, you > > > >> > could use a temporary disk based on the template. This is called a > > > >> > "transient disk" in vdsm. > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > Arik, maybe you remember how transient disks are used in engine? > > > >> > Do we have an API to run a VM once, dropping the changes to the > > > >> > disk > > > >> > done while the VM was running? > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> I think that's how stateless VMs work > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > +1 > > > > It doesn't work exactly like Nir wrote above - stateless VMs that are > > > > thin-provisioned would have a qcow volume on top of each template's > > > > volume and when they starts, their active volume would be a qcow > > > > volume on top of the aforementioned qcow volume and that active > > > > volume will be removed when the VM goes down But yeah, stateless VMs > > > > are intended for such use case > > > > > > > > > > > > I was referring to transient disks - created in vdsm: > > > https://github.com/oVirt/vdsm/blob/45903d01e142047093bf844628b5d90df12b6 > > > ffb/lib/vdsm/virt/vm.py#L3789 > > > > > > > > > > > This creates a *local* temporary file using qcow2 format, using the > > > disk on shared > > > storage as a backing file. > > > > > > > > > > > > Maybe this is not used by engine? > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3UEXYH2IGNDWW > YEHEHKLAREJS74LMXUI/
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