Re: [Xen-devel] .vhd will not boot in VM

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Ian.

On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 11:01 +0000, Juan Lorenzana wrote:
> We had a XCP 1.5 pool with 2 machines as hosts.  The storage pool
> which as NFS mounted lost its ability to export the filesystem with
> the VM images on it.
> 
>  
> 
> We contacted the vendor and we were able to restore it.  However, they
> had recommended that we delete the XCP Pool, recreate it, add the
> hosts back in, and then mount the storage.
> 
>  
> 
> That is where we are at now.  We can see the storage and the VM
> images.  However in XCP Xen Center when looking at the images is clear
> that the metadata is lost.  So we can not see which image or snap shot
> belongs to which VM.  The names all are blank when we look at the
> storage.
> 
>  
> 
> Also, if I randomly mount an image to a VM, it does not boot.  It
> produces an error that says:
> 
>  
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last): - File â/usr/binpygrubâ, line 808,
> in ? â fs = fsimage.open(file,part_offs[0[, bootfsoptions) â IOError:
> [Errno 95] Operation not supported.
> 
>  
> 
> The system kept the VM information as we destroyed the pool and then
> created a new one but it looks like we only see snapshots through
> XenCenter.  Its like the real .vhd that were running are not showing
> up.
> 
>  
> 
> I know it is pretty bad.  We should not have listened to the storage
> guys.  
> 
>  
> 
> Does anyone know someone that can help? 
> 
>  
> 
> Juan
> 
> 



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