[one-users] VM creation stuck in "pending" state

Daniel Molina dmolina at opennebula.org
Mon Apr 4 07:16:25 PDT 2011


You can check it here:
http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.2:template

On 4 April 2011 16:13, Zeeshan Ali Shah <zashah at pdc.kth.se> wrote:
> it is working if i omit CPU= in vm template .. but can u briefly explain if
> CPU= in percentage ?  right ?
>
> Zeeshan
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Daniel Molina <dmolina at opennebula.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Would you mind to try changing the Requirements statement to:
>> REQUIREMENTS = "HOSTNAME=obelix20"
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> On 2 April 2011 20:56, Upendra Sharma <upendras at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Tino,
>> >
>> > something similar is happening to me as well.
>> >
>> > the VM template looks is shown below.
>> >
>> > ==== vm template ==================
>> > NAME   = TPCW-L
>> > CPU    = 1
>> > MEMORY = 2000
>> > REQUIREMENTS = "HOSTNAME=\"obelix20\""
>> > RANK         = FREECPU
>> > OS     = [ bootloader=/usr/bin/pygrub ]
>> > DISK   = [
>> >   source   = "disk-vm1.img",
>> >   target   = "xvda",
>> >   readonly = "no" ]
>> > DISK   = [
>> >   source   = "disk-tpcw-db.img",
>> >   target   = "xvda5",
>> >   readonly = "no" ]
>> > NIC    = [ NETWORK = "Public VLAN" ]
>> > RAW    = [
>> >   type  = "xen",
>> >   data  = "vcpus=1"
>> > ]
>> > ==============================
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > The main problem is this: my vm-template has a specific REQUIREMENTS ..
>> > i.e.
>> > HOSTNAME. That particular host has a no VMs running on it and a 3 G of
>> > RAM
>> > free on it. The list of hosts on the cluster are:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > $ onehost list
>> >   ID NAME              CLUSTER  RVM   TCPU   FCPU   ACPU    TMEM    FMEM
>> > STAT
>> >    4 obelix20          cluster1          0    400      399     400
>> > 4G       2.9G    on
>> >
>> > the machine simply sits on the pending state.
>> >
>> > When I comment out the REQUIREMENTS line, it works fine and schedules it
>> > on
>> > one of the machines.
>> >
>> > I could not find a reason in any of the logs to find the reason.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > -upendra
>> >
>> >> From: tinova at opennebula.org
>> >> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 15:01:42 +0100
>> >> To: zashah at pdc.kth.se
>> >> CC: users at lists.opennebula.org
>> >> Subject: Re: [one-users] VM creation stuck in "pending" state
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Any REQUIREMENT section in the VM templates?
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >>
>> >> -Tino
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
>> >> OpenNebula Major Contributor
>> >> www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Zeeshan Ali Shah <zashah at pdc.kth.se>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > in Our case they are monitorized and are not in error state as shown
>> >> > in
>> >> > one
>> >> > host list .  neither the memory cpu requirement are exhausted ..
>> >> > any other hint ?
>> >> > it was working fine after that I launched 5vm and it stucked
>> >> > (Although)
>> >> > I
>> >> > have 32 cores with 160GB RAM left.   but later i deleted vms
>> >> > restarted
>> >> > ONEd
>> >> > and SCHED:
>> >> > even after that when no vms left the new vms in pending state.    I
>> >> > had
>> >> > to
>> >> > use manual one vm deploy everytime..
>> >> > Zeeshan
>> >> > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Tino Vazquez <tinova79 at gmail.com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hi,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Please take a look at [1].
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Regards,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> -Tino
>> >> >>
>> >> >> [1]
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> http://opennebula.org/documentation:community:faq#my_machine_stays_in_pending_state_what_can_i_do
>> >> >>
>> >> >> --
>> >> >> Constantino Vázquez Blanco | dsa-research.org/tinova
>> >> >> Virtualization Technology Engineer / Researcher
>> >> >> OpenNebula Toolkit | opennebula.org
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Zeeshan Ali Shah
>> >> >> <zashah at pdc.kth.se>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >> > Happen to me as well , I can manually deploy, but by default it is
>> >> >> > stuck
>> >> >> > in
>> >> >> > Pending state forever ..   I restarted SCHED as well. but same ..
>> >> >> > any hint ?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Zeeshan
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Héctor Sanjuán
>> >> >> > <hsanjuan at opennebula.org>
>> >> >> > wrote:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Hi,
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> make sure there is a host available to receive the VM. Have you
>> >> >> >> tried
>> >> >> >> to
>> >> >> >> manually deploy it by:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> $ onevm deploy vmid hostid
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Maybe the logs will offer more information then.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Héctor
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> El 27/03/11 17:24, Madhurranjan Mohaan escribió:
>> >> >> >> > Hi All,
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > I am unable to create VMs any further because they are stuck in
>> >> >> >> > pending
>> >> >> >> > state.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > onevm list
>> >> >> >> >    39 oneadmin    vm-ex pend   0      0K                 00
>> >> >> >> > 00:07:44
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > The logs don't seem to get anything about this. I restarted
>> >> >> >> > after
>> >> >> >> > backing up the logs , on all machines but the result is the
>> >> >> >> > same .
>> >> >> >> > I
>> >> >> >> > keep getting this message but nothing more. Any suggestions ?
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > Sun Mar 27 20:49:38 2011 [ReM][D]: VirtualMachinePoolInfo
>> >> >> >> > method
>> >> >> >> > invoked
>> >> >> >> > Sun Mar 27 20:49:40 2011 [ReM][D]: VirtualMachinePoolInfo
>> >> >> >> > method
>> >> >> >> > invoked
>> >> >> >> > Sun Mar 27 20:49:42 2011 [ReM][D]: HostPoolInfo method invoked
>> >> >> >> > Sun Mar 27 20:49:42 2011 [ReM][D]: VirtualMachinePoolInfo
>> >> >> >> > method
>> >> >> >> > invoked
>> >> >> >> > Sun Mar 27 20:49:42 2011 [ReM][D]: VirtualMachinePoolInfo
>> >> >> >> > method
>> >> >> >> > invoked
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > My vm-template is as follows:
>> >> >> >> > NAME = vm-ex
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > CPU    = 1
>> >> >> >> > MEMORY = 256
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > DISK = [
>> >> >> >> >  image  = "Frame OS installation" ]
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > NIC = [ network = "Test-Fixed" ]
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > GRAPHICS = [
>> >> >> >> >   type    = "vnc",
>> >> >> >> >   listen  = "localhost",
>> >> >> >> >   port    = "5902"  ]
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > CONTEXT = [
>> >> >> >> >  HOSTNAME = "ABC
>> >> >> >> >  files  =       "/srv/cloud/one/vm-template-2/init.sh" ]
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > thanks
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > Ranjan
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >
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>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> --
>> >> >> >> Héctor Sanjuan
>> >> >> >> OpenNebula.org
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>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > --
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > --
>> >> >> > Regards
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Zeeshan Ali Shah
>> >> >> > System Administrator
>> >> >> > PDC-Center for High Performance Computing
>> >> >> > KTH-Royal Institute of Technology , Sweden
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > +46 8 790 9115
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>> >> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Regards
>> >> >
>> >> > Zeeshan Ali Shah
>> >> > System Administrator
>> >> > PDC-Center for High Performance Computing
>> >> > KTH-Royal Institute of Technology , Sweden
>> >> >
>> >> > +46 8 790 9115
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>
> Zeeshan Ali Shah
> System Administrator
> PDC-Center for High Performance Computing
> KTH-Royal Institute of Technology , Sweden
>
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