[one-users] Recover VM in FAILED state

[Ruben S. Montero]

Hi

Sorry for the dealy

So I guess if I delete the VM the image will be deleted as well?
>

Yes as you already know the VM images are deleted when the VM is deleted.


> Also I do not quit follow how the changes will be preserved and the
> resources, the disk is not persistent.
>

Yes you are right, changes are only preserved for persistent VMs. In your
case you need to get the disk and register it again if you want to keep the
changes in the VM.


>
> Thanks,
> - Karsten
>
>
> On 30/05/13 12:06, Ruben S. Montero wrote:
>
>> Hi Karsten
>>
>> Unfortunately there is no way to manually recover a VM from FAILED
>> state. I assume that in you where  trying to migrate (not livemigrate) a
>> VM and it failed to move the files from onehost to another one. That
>> left your VM in failed.
>>
>> In that case you can:
>>
>> 1.- Delete and recreate the VM. This will clean the VM state  (i.e. any
>> disk change for some datastores. Note, if you are using a shared FS the
>> changes will be preserved) and it will keep any allocated resource (i.e.
>> IP's persistent images...)
>>
>> 2.- If you want to keep the disk changes in a "non-shared" datastore,
>> you can manually register the VM disk image (.e.g. copying it from the
>> node) and start a new VM based on that rescued disk.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Ruben
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Karsten Nielsen <karsten at unity3d.com
>> <mailto:karsten at unity3d.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I have a VM in FAILED state do to a migration attempt that failed.
>>
>>     I have started the VM again manually however I need to tell one that
>>     it is running on a host and that it is not in a failed state any more.
>>
>>     Can that be done ?
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     - Karsten
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