[PVE-User] Error deleting Ceph volume from KVM virtual machine

Gilberto Nunes gilberto.nunes32 at gmail.com
Mon May 19 21:08:49 CEST 2014


wow nice feature.. I don't knew about this hotplug feature...
Thanks in advance


2014-05-19 15:59 GMT-03:00 Alexandre DERUMIER <aderumier at odiso.com>:

> >>You should always stop a VM to effectively remove a hard disk: the
> running VM doesn't free it until it is stopped. You can make changes in
> configured harddisks in PVE GUI but they won't be activated until next
> >>stop/start (reboot doesn't work AFAIK).
>
> you can add hotplug:1 to vm config file, to enable live hotplug/unplug
> (disk,net)
>
> ----- Mail original -----
>
> De: "Eneko Lacunza" <elacunza at binovo.es>
> À: pve-user at pve.proxmox.com
> Envoyé: Dimanche 18 Mai 2014 21:15:36
> Objet: Re: [PVE-User] Error deleting Ceph volume from KVM virtual machine
>
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> You should always stop a VM to effectively remove a hard disk: the running
> VM doesn't free it until it is stopped. You can make changes in configured
> harddisks in PVE GUI but they won't be activated until next stop/start
> (reboot doesn't work AFAIK).
>
> That said, the remove error could be because of a timeout deleting the
> somewhat big disk.
>
> Cheers
> Eneko
>
> On 17/05/14 00:44, Greg Poirier wrote:
>
>
>
> I have a 1TB RBD volume attached to a KVM virtual machine. Removing the
> volume from this machine was somewhat problematic.
>
>
> While the machine is running:
>
>
> I selected the disk and clicked Remove. This cause the disk to appear as
> 'unused0' which mapped to the Ceph RBD volume.
>
>
> I then highlighted 'unused0' and clicked Remove again.
>
>
> I got three errors:
> One was a timeout error attempting to get flock the VM's lock file
> (/var/lock/qemu-server/lock-400.conf).
> Another was a connection timeout error.
> Another was an internal server error.
>
>
> I was unable to find any logs specifying the exact nature of any of these
> errors. pvedaemon and pveproxy both simply logged the request.
>
>
> I tried deleting the disk from Ceph directly which is when I discovered
> the watcher on the rbd_header object. I verified that it was the KVM
> process that held the lock on the RBD volume and shutdown the VM.
>
>
> While the machine is not running:
>
>
> After selecting the 'unused0' disk and clicking Remove the web interface
> froze for some time, and then finally came back with an Internal Server
> Error.
>
>
> The volume was no longer present in the web interface, and I confirmed
> both that the volume was no longer listed in rbd -p volumes ls -- as well
> as inspecting attempting to inspect all of the objects that used to make up
> the volume (rbd.stat returned an exception saying that the file wasn't
> found--confirming the volume's completed deletion).
>
>
> I am running PVE 3.1-24/060bd5a6 with the 2.6.32 kernel.
>
>
> Is this a known issue? Has this been fixed in later versions of Proxmox?
> Should I file a new bug? Is there any additional information I should
> attempt to gather before filing?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
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