Xen users - Sep 2010 - [XCP] Making a VM on the second machine in a pool.

OK, after I upgraded one of my XCP systems, I was able to install two Windows
Vista hosts.  Satisfied, I upgraded the twin system, and added it to the pool.

Seeing that I may not be able to migrate my VMs like I thought I could (see
other email), I wanted to make a copy of one of my VMs and import it to my
second system.
I used OpenXenManager to export my two VMs... which were both 24G... but were
17G and 20G when exported.  Does the export compress the image, or is
OpenXenManager failing me here?

So I tried to import either VM to my secondary XCP using OXM, and while it
seemed like it would work, it would churn the harddrive for a while and quietly
fail.
I would kill the OXM, restart OXM and there would appear that nothing happened?

I then tried to install a template onto the second XCP server and it failed,
too.

I suspect its having an issue making the virtual disk.

I was going to try to import one of my .xva files... but I don''t have
17G of spare space in the root of the XCP server.  Am I going to have to run an
NFS server to import the .xva files?

I should stop there.  

Thanks in advance.

BK

 		 	   		  

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Hi,

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Buckminster Katt
<buckykattnj@hotmail.com> wrote:
> So I tried to import either VM to my secondary XCP using OXM, and while it
> seemed like it would work, it would churn the harddrive for a while and
> quietly fail.
> I would kill the OXM, restart OXM and there would appear that nothing
> happened?
>
What version of open xen manager? I was having a read error issue on a
tar ball version last week, but the svn version worked. The OXM
maintainer was planning on pushing an update to it, he might have.

Try the svn version of OXM for importing though.

svn co https://openxenmanager.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/openxenmanager
openxenmanager

Let us know if that helps or not.

We are also commonly on #openxenmanager on freenode.

Thanks,
Todd

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> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Buckminster Katt
> <buckykattnj@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > So I tried to import either VM to my secondary XCP using OXM, and
while it
> > seemed like it would work, it would churn the harddrive for a while
and
> > quietly fail.
> > I would kill the OXM, restart OXM and there would appear that nothing
> > happened?
> >
> 
> What version of open xen manager? I was having a read error issue on a
> tar ball version last week, but the svn version worked. The OXM
> maintainer was planning on pushing an update to it, he might have.
> 
> Try the svn version of OXM for importing though.
> 
> svn co https://openxenmanager.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/openxenmanager
> openxenmanager
> 
> Let us know if that helps or not.
> 
> We are also commonly on #openxenmanager on freenode.
Under the ''About'', it said SVN version.  I guess I got it
about 10~15 days ago.

I''ll try a fresh version soon.

Thanks.

BK

 		 	   		  

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