[one-users] OpenNebula 3.0b2 after onevm saveas VM gone

[Fabian Wenk]

Hello Valentin

I did not yet play around with ONE 3.x, but I guess this behavior 
is the same as in 2.2.1.

On 15.09.2011 15:36, Valentin Bud wrote:
> # onevm saveas 5 0 debian-upd1
>
> I mention that I ran the above command while the Debian VM was on. As far as
> I understand from documentation this is not a problem but
> the contents of the image are only created after the VM is shutdown
> gracefully (using onevm shutdown). So I did just that.

> The problem. The Debian VM is gone, it is not listed anymore. onevm returns
> empty list. The Debian VM was the only
> one active. Is this normal behavior if you save the only disk the VM has?

This is normal behavior, see the "Virtual Machine Life-cycle" at 
[1]. The only workaround I know is to recreate the VM with 'onevm 
create <template>'. This will give an new VID for the VM. If you 
want to boot it with the just freshly saved image, you need to 
adjust your template so it will use the newly created image.

   [1] http://www.opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.2:vm_guide

As far as I have understood, if you want to have an VM which 
should run (or exists) forever do not use 'onevm shutdown <vm_id>' 
at any time, or you need to recreate the VM. Only use 'onevm stop 
<vm_id>' and 'onevm resume <vm_id>', which will just pause the VM 
(no processes are stopped inside the VM). Reboot or shutdown of 
the OS in the VM is possible. With using shutdown inside the VM, I 
had to recover (eg. boot again) the VM with waiting until 'onevm 
list' (or 'onevm top') shows the state as "unkn" and then use 
'onevm restart <vm_id>' to boot the VM again.

Hope this helps.


bye
Fabian