From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gon=E7alo_Borges?= Subject: Xen and OCFS interoperability issue Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:33:55 +0100 Message-ID: <4A93DA33.2090101@lip.pt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Hi Xen devel people... I've sent the following message to xen-users mailing list with no feedback. Indeed, it seems more of a devel issue, than a user one. Can someone of you shed some light in here? Cheers and Thanks Goncalo > Hi All... > > I'm testing a Xen solution on an OCFS2 SAN to store VM images. > > If I try to save a VM asking to store the file in any Dom0 local dir > (ex: /tmp) everything works fine, and I can properly restore the VM > afterwards. Nevertheless, It I try to save a VM asking to store the > saved file inside the OCFS2 SAN, it fails with the following messages in > xend.log > > ---*--- > > [2009-08-21 14:45:25 xend 9720] DEBUG (XendCheckpoint:89) [xc_save]: > /usr/lib64/xen/bin/xc_save 26 9 0 0 0 > [2009-08-21 14:45:25 xend 9720] DEBUG (XendCheckpoint:322) suspend > [2009-08-21 14:45:25 xend 9720] DEBUG (XendCheckpoint:92) In > saveInputHandler suspend > [2009-08-21 14:45:25 xend 9720] DEBUG (XendCheckpoint:94) Suspending 9 ... > [2009-08-21 14:45:25 xend.XendDomainInfo 9720] DEBUG > (XendDomainInfo:1036) XendDomainInfo.handleShutdownWatch > [2009-08-21 14:45:25 xend.XendDomainInfo 9720] DEBUG > (XendDomainInfo:1036) XendDomainInfo.handleShutdownWatch > [2009-08-21 14:45:25 xend.XendDomainInfo 9720] INFO (XendDomainInfo:994) > Domain has shutdown: name=migrating-one-0 id=9 reason=suspend. > [2009-08-21 14:45:25 xend 9720] INFO (XendCheckpoint:99) Domain 9 > suspended. > [2009-08-21 14:45:25 xend 9720] DEBUG (XendCheckpoint:108) Written done > [2009-08-21 14:45:25 xend 9720] INFO (XendCheckpoint:351) Had 0 > unexplained entries in p2m table > [2009-08-21 14:45:25 xend 9720] INFO (XendCheckpoint:351) Saving memory > pages: iter 1 0%ERROR Internal error: Error when writing to state file > (5) (errno 14) > [2009-08-21 14:45:25 xend 9720] INFO (XendCheckpoint:351) Save exit rc=1 > [2009-08-21 14:45:25 xend 9720] ERROR (XendCheckpoint:133) Save failed > on domain one-0 (9). > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendCheckpoint.py", > line 110, in save > forkHelper(cmd, fd, saveInputHandler, False) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendCheckpoint.py", > line 339, in forkHelper > raise XendError("%s failed" % string.join(cmd)) > XendError: /usr/lib64/xen/bin/xc_save 26 9 0 0 0 failed > > ---*--- > > It seems I'm not the only one complaining about this issue, according to > the following threads: > > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2009-04/msg00670.html > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2008-09/msg00948.html > > I wonder is there is some workaround for the problem? > > Cheers > Goncalo