[Openstack] Help, How to restore existing vms after host reboot?

Vishvananda Ishaya vishvananda at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 23:49:48 UTC 2012


I think that this branch should make reboot work:

https://review.openstack.org/#change,5177

It looks like we should also make sync_power_states run more frequently.  It currently runs every 6 minutes by default.

On Mar 8, 2012, at 6:27 PM, DeadSun wrote:

> As we all know, if host reboot since of some failure or hardware problem, the vms will actually shutoff. But after host up, info in nova db show vm state are "active", and using "nova list" return the same.
> 
> Now how to start the vms. In Daiblo, I always just using "nova reboot", it works.But in essex version, it seems cannot use "nova reboot" in an inactive domain. I see there is "nova host-action" command, but it not always make vm start.
> 
> Another way, I can use "virsh start" a domain, but if the vm attach a volume, it doesn't work. "nova volume-detach" cannot detach a volume in an inactive domain. 
> 
> Is there a normal way to resolve this case?
> 
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