Re: XEN-API problems

[SwissCenter HelpDesk <helpdesk@swisscenter.com>]

Hello,

I am currently having the same problems. I wasn't able to create and 
start a VM using the Xen-API
(xen 3.1 built from source).

Any help and/or real world examples would be really appreciated.

Best regards,

-- 
Sébastien Riccio
SwissCenter / OpenBusiness SA
sr@openbusiness.com


Jacek Konieczny a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> For my current project I need to automate domain creation and some basic
> management. I thought XEN-API may be a better way than writing xm config
> and calling xm to create and manage domains. 
>
> Unfortunately the XEN-API documentation and examples I found seem a bit
> outdated. By trial and error I managed to login to xend and create a VM
> with a few VBDs (but I still don't quite understand how those VBD/VDI/SR
> work)... however when trying to start the VM I get:
>
> {'Status': 'Failure', 'ErrorDescription': ['INTERNAL_ERROR', "(11, 'Resource temporarily unavailable')"]}
>
> In xend.log I get:
>
> [2007-06-13 10:13:43 1905] ERROR (XendDomainInfo:1540) XendDomainInfo.initDomain: exception occurred
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 1517, in _initDomain
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line 112, in createImage
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line 131, in createDomain
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line 517, in buildDomain
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line 215, in buildDomain
> Error: (11, 'Resource temporarily unavailable')
> [2007-06-13 10:13:43 1905] ERROR (XendDomainInfo:416) VM start failed
>
> There is nothing interesting in the "xm dmesg" output, despite "loglvl=all
> guest_loglvl=all" xen boot options.
>
> How can I find out what went wrong? Is the XEN-API usable at all? Is there any up-to-date
> XEN-API documentation and/or examples available?
>
> Greets,
>         Jacek
>
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