[Openstack] Recovering VMs in OPenStack ESSEX

Razique Mahroua razique.mahroua at gmail.com
Mon Nov 11 18:50:46 UTC 2013


Try to create it and chown it to nova:



On Monday, November 11, 2013, Narayanan, Krishnaprasad wrote:

>  Hi Razique,
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> I executed the start command on the compute node using the domain name
> option. I got an error message saying that
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> Error:“Failed to start domain instance-UUID”
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> Error: Unable to precreate char dev file ‘/var/lib/nova/instances/
> instance-UUID/console.log: No such file or directory.
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> Can I get help to get rid of this problem?
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> Thanks,
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> Krishnaprasad
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> *From:* Razique Mahroua [mailto:razique.mahroua at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'razique.mahroua at gmail.com');>]
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> *Sent:* Montag, 11. November 2013 17:22
> *To:* Narayanan, Krishnaprasad
> *Cc:* openstack at lists.openstack.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'openstack at lists.openstack.org');>
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Recovering VMs in OPenStack ESSEX
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> You have many solutions for that
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> first try to power it on via
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> $ virsh start
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> and check /var/log/libvritd.log
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> you can use kpartx to discover the partitions within the images, and use
> the different builtin system tools to fix the partitions
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> fsck.ext4/ xfs_adm, etc…
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> Razique
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> On 11 Nov 2013, at 04:14, Narayanan, Krishnaprasad <narayana at uni-mainz.de<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'narayana at uni-mainz.de');>>
> wrote:
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>   Hallo all,
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> I looked in to forums about recovering VMs in OpenStack ESSEX.  In the
> dashboard, I could see that the VMs status is “Hard rebooting” with power
> state Shutoff.  In virsh, I could see that the state is Shutoff. The
> complete process is taking longer time to finish and I assume it is in a
> unrecoverable state. Can anybody help me in recovering the data on the VM
> and the VM itself?
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> Thanks,
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> Krishnaprasad
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