[openstack-dev] [nova]Libvirt error code for failing volume in nova

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu May 19 15:38:49 UTC 2016


On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 07:57:17PM +0000, Radhakrishnan, Siva wrote:
> Hi All!
> Currently I am working on this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1168011 which says we have to change  error message displayed  when attaching a volume fails. Currently it catches all operation errors that libvirt can raise and assume that all of them are the source of device being busy. You can find the source of this code here https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py#L1160. I have few questions on this bug
>  
> 1.	what kind of error message and other required info should we include in the exception to make it look more 	generalized instead of the current one ?
>  
> 2.	Should we raise separate exception for "Device is Busy" or a single general exception would work fine ?
>  
> 3.	If we need separate exception for device being busy what would
> be the equivalent libvirt error code  for that

There is not any specific libvirt error code used for this situation that
you can detect, which is why the code is catching the general libvirt
error. 

Regards,
Daniel
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