[one-users] vm State Issue

[Tino Vazquez]

Hi Sandeep,

You may need to add the following to your VM template to allow a
graceful shutdown:

FEATURES = [ acpi = "yes" ]

Hope it helps,

-Tino

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Constantino Vázquez Blanco | dsa-research.org/tinova
Virtualization Technology Engineer / Researcher
OpenNebula Toolkit | opennebula.org



2010/7/28 Csom Gyula <csom at interface.hu>:
> Hi,
> to my undertsanding ONE shutdown uses virsh shutdown for KVM VMM [1] . However virsh
> shutdown is not guaranteed to succeed. As the virsh man [2] says:
>
> shutdown domain-id
> Gracefully shuts down a domain. This coordinates with the domain OS to perform
> graceful shutdown, so there is no guarantee that it will succeed, and may take a
> variable length of time depending on what services must be shutdown in the domain.
>
> You may check whether your guest OS supports acpi...
>
> Cheers,
> Gyula
>
> ---
>
> [1] KVM VMM MAD: http://dev.opennebula.org/projects/opennebula/repository/revisions/master/entry/src/vmm_mad/kvm/one_vmm_kvm.rb
> [2] virsh man: http://linux.die.net/man/1/virsh
> [3] There are some posts on 'graceful shutdown of KVM guests' you might find useful too:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg04032.html (OpenBSD)
> http://www.codigomanso.com/en/2009/11/solved-qemu-kvm-virtual-machine-ignores-shutdown-and-reset/ (Ubuntu)
> http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg27699.html (Debian)
> http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsFeatures (libvirt)
> http://www.opennebula.org/documentation:rel1.4:kvmg#features (ONE)
>
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> Tárgy: [one-users] vm State Issue
>
> Hi,
>    I am using opennebula 1.4. I used Ubuntu 10.04 for all node (front node/worker node) .
> I Deployed opennebula with few worker node with kvm hyperwiser.
> There is lot of confusion about vm states.
>
> When i shutdown or suspend the vm from front node, it show the status
> "shutdown / save / suspend" at front node.
> But if i check on worker node with virsh or virt-manager, it shows the vm status
> running.
>
> I am not able to change vm state by any way from front node.
> I just want to know that It's default behavior or I did something wrong with
> opennebula configuration.
>
> There was same problem with 1.2.
> I Migrated to 1.4 with the hope that the problem will get solved with version 1.4.
> So , kindly reply for the solution of problem.
>
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards,
> Sandeep Kapse
>
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