[one-users] Can't restart or resume VM when VM is in save status. And MEMORY = 0 when VM is running .

[Prakhar Srivastava]

Hi,
If by saving you intend to 'resume' that VM at a later point in time,your
steps are correct.

Regards,
Prakhar

2011/4/8 Khoa Nguyen <vankhoa011 at gmail.com>

>
> Hi Prakhar Srivastava
> Thank you for your reply. If i want to save a VM .
> 1. onevm stop id
> 2. Wait until changing from saving to stopping state.
> 3. onevm resume id.
>
> Is that right?
>
>
>
> 2011/4/8 Prakhar Srivastava <prakhar.apj at gmail.com>
>
>> Hi Khoa
>> As already stated by Carlos, the save state is an intermediate state in
>> which the running VM image is saved to the disk. This might take a little
>> time and in the the mean time, the VM state is save (means it is saving the
>> image so that it can be resumed from the state at which it was stopped). You
>> cannot perform resume  at save (saving...)  state. It will always give an
>> error. Once the VMs image is saved completely, the state changes to stop
>> (means the VM is stopped). You can only resume a VM from a stopped or
>> suspended state. So if you are not getting to 'stop' state, please check
>> your vm.log file for any error. You can find the log file in
>> /var/log/<VMID>/vm.log. Do post back the logs in case you find it cryptic
>> !!!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Prakhar
>>
>>
>> 2011/4/8 Khoa Nguyen <vankhoa011 at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Hi Carlos Martín Sánchez
>>>
>>> When the VM is in save status, How to change from saving  to running
>>> status?
>>> I try to enable VM , but it display Erros: wrong state.
>>> I can't solve problem.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2011/4/5 Carlos Martín Sánchez <cmartin at opennebula.org>
>>>
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> If you take a look at the Virtual Machine Life-cycle diagram [1], the
>>>> 'save' state is a intermediate state, and the VM should end in either the
>>>> 'suspended' or 'stopped' state. If the VM is stuck in 'save', you may find
>>>> some error messages in oned.log or the VM's log (in <vm-id>/vm.log).
>>>>
>>>> About #2, it may be a monitorization problem. Can you check using virsh
>>>> or xentop the actual memory consumption?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Carlos.
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.2:vm_guide#virtual_machine_life-cycle
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Carlos Martín, MSc
>>>> Project Major Contributor
>>>> OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing
>>>> www.OpenNebula.org <http://www.opennebula.org/> | cmartin at opennebula
>>>> .org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 17 March 2011 05:01, Khoa Nguyen <vankhoa011 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have two question but I can't explain .
>>>>> 1.When i suspend or stop a VM, It changes to save status. Unfortunaly,I
>>>>> want to resume or restart  VM to changing running status , It display
>>>>> "Error: Wrong state to perform action". I don't know why. Is OpenNebula
>>>>> wrong??
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Status's VM is ruunig but MEMORY = 0.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone know? Please help me.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> oneadmin1 at oneadmin-desktop:/home/oneadmin$ onevm list
>>>>>    ID     USER     NAME STAT CPU     MEM        HOSTNAME        TIME
>>>>>    39 oneadmin ttylinux runn   0     * 0K*   172.29.70.137 00 00:05:05
>>>>> oneadmin1 at oneadmin-desktop:/home/oneadmin$ onevm suspend 39
>>>>> oneadmin1 at oneadmin-desktop:/home/oneadmin$ onevm list
>>>>>    ID     USER     NAME STAT CPU     MEM        HOSTNAME        TIME
>>>>>    39 oneadmin ttylinux save   0     * 0K*   172.29.70.137 00 00:05:21
>>>>> oneadmin1 at oneadmin-desktop:/home/oneadmin$ *onevm resume 39
>>>>> Error: Wrong state to perform action*
>>>>> oneadmin1 at oneadmin-desktop:/home/oneadmin$ *onevm restart 39
>>>>> Error: Wrong state to perform action*
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for advance.
>>>>>
>>>>> ,--
>>>>> Nguyễn Vũ Văn Khoa
>>>>> Đại học Khoa Học Tự Nhiên TP HCM
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