[one-users] running vms appears as suspended

[Carlos Martín Sánchez]

Hi,

If I understood correctly, you are suspending the VM directly from the
hypervisor, not using "onevm suspend".
OpenNebula assumes the exclusive management of the VM life-cycle, so
when it detects that the VM state changed from running to suspended
without knowing how, it stops monitoring that VM, assuming something
really bad happened.

The easiest solution for your use case is to suspend and resume the VM
using OpenNebula (onevm suspend; onevm resume).


Regards.
--
Carlos Martín, MSc
Project Major Contributor
OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing
www.OpenNebula.org | cmartin at opennebula.org



On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Zamore, Kherry (contractor)
<Kherry_Zamore at cable.comcast.com> wrote:
> First of all, a big thank you to all the developers and supporters who make
> this project possible.  We wouldn’t be here without you!
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> I have an interesting problem where I created a method of backing up virtual
> machine disks (qcow2) by suspending the vm, copying the disk image locally,
> and resuming the vm.  Not the most elegant solution, but for what I need it
> gets the job done.  The problem occurs when the virtual machine manager
> polls a host that the backup job is currently running on.  If the vm is
> suspended, VMM puts the host into the SUSPENDED state.  However when VMM
> returns to the host for later polls, it seems the vm is ignored.  The vms
> are up and running, without issue, yet onevm shows the host as being
> suspended.  Onevm resume will cause the vm to be destroyed (there is no
> state file).
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> I am running 2.2, do more recent versions resolve this issue?  How can I
> force VMM to poll the host or is there a way to set the state back to
> running without destroying and redeploying the vm?
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> Thanks,
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> ~kzamore
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