[one-users] Ubuntu shutdown/image save

[Sean Abbott]

It's running on a qcow2 datastore.  How might I go about catching the
process?

On 05/17/2012 03:50 PM, fc lists wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What kind of Datastore is the image running from ?
>
> depending on the TM driver you could try to "catch" the process on the vmhost 
> and see if it is getting stuck somehow or doing something weird, if the oned is 
> taking time to timeout you could maybe manage to see what is happenning.
>
> -FC
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Sean Abbott <seabbott at akamai.com 
> <mailto:seabbott at akamai.com>> wrote:
>
>     ACPI: Enabled by default in the KVM driver.  I didn't explicitly enable it
>     in the template, but it is working because the VM does actually shut down.
>
>     No errors that I've found anywhere other than the ones in the VM log.
>
>     I did keep a VNC connection open and everything appeared to shut off
>     cleanly.  I also identified the machine doman in virsh and ran manual "virsh
>     --connect qemu:///system --readonly dominfo 4" commands to watch it come
>     down, and nearly instantly the command (which is what is used by the
>     shutdown while loop) comes back with an exit code of 1 and a 'failed to get
>     domain" because the domain doesn't exist any more.
>
>     No, I restart the VM several times and each time it boots from the hard
>     disk.  Plus, I have been monitoring the VNC and it doesn't give me the
>     "please remove the disc" like it does after the first reboot.
>
>     Now, I also installed some xubuntu clients, because there are possibly some
>     issues with ubuntu itself powering off versus halting.  What was weird was
>     that when I issued a shutdown WITHOUT the saveas, it worked fine (VM exited,
>     disappeared from the VM list)  However, when the saveas was involved, I had
>     the same error.
>
>     On 05/17/2012 02:44 PM, fc lists wrote:
> >     Hi I was going to suggest to double check that ACPID is running in the VM
> >     , but then reading again i see it propted you with a popup so it should be
> >     running. Did you enabled ACPI in your VM TEMPLATE? Other then that, it
> >     seems to me that the issue is on the VM because any other problem related
> >     to your ONE master server would show up in the log ... as permission
> >     denied or whatever. Did you try to keep a VNC connection to the VM from
> >     outside OPENNEBULA when you shutdown to see what happens? It really does
> >     seem that the VM shutdown is not completing properly .. and from what you
> >     write """ I created a template that used a raw hard disk and an ubuntu
> >     boot cd to create a working ubuntu 12.04 VM. Done, worked. I used onevm
> >     saveas <vm-name> <disk-id> "ubuntu-base-image" to set up a save. I used
> >     onevm shutdown <vm-id> to shut it down. """ IT seems to me that you are
> >     just booting the UBUNTU live cd, perform the installation and the issue a
> >     saveas without restarting your VM first ... If that is the case then
> >     UBUNTU might simply be waiting for you to remove the CD from the drive ...
> >     until onenebula timeout and your VM fails. Opening a VNC From outside
> >     opennebyla will probably give you the answer you are looking for -FC On
> >     Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Sean Abbott <seabbott at akamai.com
> >     <mailto:seabbott at akamai.com>
> >     <mailto:seabbott at akamai.com>> wrote: So, I'm attempting to create a master
> >     linux client image from which I can deploy new clients easily. I know that
> >     I'll eventually need to get master contextualization. However, before I
> >     get there, I'm having problems. I created a template that used a raw hard
> >     disk and an ubuntu boot cd to create a working ubuntu 12.04 VM. Done,
> >     worked. I used onevm saveas <vm-name> <disk-id> "ubuntu-base-image" to set
> >     up a save. I used onevm shutdown <vm-id> to shut it down. At first, it
> >     appeared to work. I was watching the vm from VNC and it popped up a window
> >     asking if I wanted to shut it down (I need to research how to make that
> >     window not happen in ubuntu). However. The VM transitioned to "unknown"
> >     state about 5 minutes later (initially it was "shutdown"), and the log
> >     says that it didn't properly finish shutdown: Thu May 17 16:19:33 2012
> >     [LCM][I]: New VM state is SHUTDOWN Thu May 17 16:24:38 2012 [VMM][I]:
> >     Command execution fail: /var/tmp/one/vmm/kvm/shutdown one-7 172.26.210.149
> >     7 172.26.210.149 Thu May 17 16:24:38 2012 [VMM][E]: Timeout reached and VM
> >     one-7 is still alive Thu May 17 16:24:38 2012 [VMM][I]: Timeout reached
> >     Thu May 17 16:24:38 2012 [VMM][I]: ExitCode: 1 Thu May 17 16:24:38 2012
> >     [VMM][I]: Failed to execute virtualization driver operation: shutdown. Thu
> >     May 17 16:24:38 2012 [VMM][E]: Error shuting down VM: Timeout reached and
> >     VM one-7 is still alive Thu May 17 16:24:38 2012 [LCM][I]: Fail to
> >     shutdown VM. Assuming that the VM is still RUNNING (will poll VM). Thu May
> >     17 16:24:38 2012 [VMM][I]: ExitCode: 0 Thu May 17 16:24:38 2012 [VMM][I]:
> >     VM not found, setting to UNKNOWN And, presumably because of this, my image
> >     status "locked" and there is no data that has made it into the image. Is
> >     the answer that I need to figure out how to make ubuntu do a clean/fast
> >     ACPI shutdown before I can make this work, or is something else afoot.
> >     Corollary question: has anyone managed to make ubuntu do a clean ACPI
> >     shutdown with no intervention? Thanks! sean ______________________________
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