[one-users] Unknown state

[Rich Wellner]

Ok, I'll check that out.  FYI: my RHEL 5.5 machines on reasonably 
capable hardware take longer than that default.  Might be worth 
considering a longer default.

rw2

On 10/27/10 8:33 AM, Tino Vazquez wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
> OpenNebula ceases its monitoring when the VM enters the shutdown
> state. What is probably happening is that the VM takes more time to
> shutdown than the default timeout, which is 40 seconds (20 iterations
> over a 2 seconds sleep), so for OpenNebula is like if the shutdown
> failed. This timeout default can be adjusted in
> $ONE_LOCATION/bin/remotes/vmm/kvm/shutdown.
>
> Best regards,
>
> -Tino
>
> --
> Constantino Vázquez Blanco | dsa-research.org/tinova
> Virtualization Technology Engineer / Researcher
> OpenNebula Toolkit | opennebula.org
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Rich Wellner<rkw at objenv.com>  wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I have monitoring turned down to a minute so that I don't have much latency
>> on my management while we're doing testing.  As a result, when I do a
>> shutdown on a vm sometimes the shutdown isn't complete before the next
>> monitoring update.  What ends up happening is that the state of the machine
>> goes from running to shutdown, then a bit later to running again.  Finally,
>> when the guest shutdown actually complete, the state goes to unknow because
>> One doesn't know why the machine disappeared.
>>
>> It would be better if this race condition were handled more elegantly and
>> One could tolerate that the machine took a while to shutdown.  As is a
>> manual clean-up has to happen.  I have also confirmed that my one minute
>> monitor cycle only makes the problem more likely.  If, by coincidence,
>> someone asks One to shutdown a vm slightly before the monitor thread kicks
>> off, this issue shows up.  So it seems any machine that is shutdown where
>> timeToShutdown>  timeUntilMonitorRefresh will end up in an unknown state.
>>
>> rw2
>>
>>
>>
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