[Openstack] [devstack][Nova] Unable to spawn VMs

Sergey Kolekonov skolekonov at mirantis.com
Mon Jun 9 10:20:27 UTC 2014


Hi,

have you inspected /var/log/libvirt/qemu/instance-xxxxxxxx.log files? Such
problem can be connected with your hypervisor. Especially if you use nested
kvm virtualization on your host machine.


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Deepak Shetty <dpkshetty at gmail.com> wrote:

> (Hit send by mistake.. continuing below)
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Deepak Shetty <dpkshetty at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>    The last time I sent this issue, I didn't had the right tags in the
>> subject so sending with the right tags, in the hope that the right folks
>> might help provide some clues.
>>
>> I am usign latest devstack on F20 and I see VMs stuck in 'spawning' state.
>> No errors in n-sch, n-cpu and I checked other n-* screen logs too, no
>> errors whatsoever
>>
>> There is enuf memory and disk space available for the tiny and small
>> flavour VMs I am trying to run
>>
>>
> 2014-06-09 09:57:19.935 AUDIT nova.compute.resource_tracker [-] Free ram
> (MB): 1905
> 2014-06-09 09:57:19.935 AUDIT nova.compute.resource_tracker [-] Free disk
> (GB): 46
> 2014-06-09 09:57:19.936 AUDIT nova.compute.resource_tracker [-] Free
> VCPUS: 1
> 2014-06-09 09:57:19.936 AUDIT nova.compute.resource_tracker [-] PCI stats:
> []
>
> The only thing that i see other than INFO/DEbug is the below
> 2014-06-09 09:57:42.700 WARNING nova.compute.manager [-] Found 3 in the
> database and 0 on the hypervisor.
>
> What does that mean ? Does that say that Nova sees 3 VMs in its DB but a
> query to the hyp (via libvirt I assume) returns none ?
>
> Interestingly I can see the qemu process for my VM that nova says is stuck
> in Spawning state and virsh list also lists' it
> But i don't see the libvirt.xml for this stuck VM (from nova's
> perspective) in the /opt/stack/data/nova/instances/<uuid> folder.
>
> I was trying to figure what this means ? Where is nova stuck ? Screen logs
> just doesn't point to anything useful to debug further.
>
> From the n-cpu logs i see the "Creating image" info log from
> nova.virt.libvirt and thats the last
> I don't see the info log "Creating isntance" from nova.virt.. so it looks
> like its stuck somewhere between creating image and spawning instance.. but
> virsh list and qemu process says otherwise
>
> Looking for some debug hints here
>
> thanx,
> deepak
>
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