Brett Westover
2011-Sep-07 19:01 UTC
[Xen-users] XCP Timeout trying to do quiesced snapshot of Windows Server 2008 Standard
I am running XCP 1.0.0
After running the "Install-XenProvider.cmd" in the Windows 2008
Standard
(64-bit) VM and rebooting, I am trying to do a quiesced snapshot of the
VM.
I use this command:
# xe vm-snapshot-with-quiesce vm=2008_Standard_Test
new-name-label=Test-Quiesce
After a considerable amount of time (5 minutes at least) it returns:
The VSS plug-in has timed out
vm: 2b4426e6-8eb3-c883-8e20-81286d895169 (2008_Standard_Test)
A snapshot is created, but presumably it''s not quiesced. Also, there
appears to be two disks attached to this VM. It wouldn''t shut down, so
I
forced it to power off. When I try to boot back up it says the VDI is
not found. If I detach the second disk, then it boots normally.
I have done this successfully with another VM, 2008 Enterprise 64-bit
and another Server 2003 32-bit.
Where do I start troubleshooting to find out where its breaking down and
why?
Thanks,
Brett Westover
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Brett Westover
2011-Sep-09 21:34 UTC
RE: [Xen-users] XCP Timeout trying to do quiesced snapshot of WindowsServer 2008 Standard
Some more detail on this. After I attempt the snapshot,
/var/log/messages starts getting spammed with this:
-------------------
xenserver1 tapdisk[19068]: ERROR: errno -28 at vhd_complete:
/dev/VG_XenStorage-4b3d5a95-0830-1580-608b-aacea358ea5c/VHD-3f5f1bfa-521
1-453b-b447-eb0cd5cc17a5: op: 2, lsec: 6162416, secs: 8, nbytes: 4096,
blk: 1504, blk_offset: 4294967295
-------------------
It keeps doing that until I shutdown the VM and detach the second hard
disk that gets created. Then I see this in messages:
-------------------
Sep 9 14:06:58 closed image
/dev/VG_XenStorage-4b3d5a95-0830-1580-608b-aacea358ea5c/VHD-3f5f1bfa-521
1-453b-b447-eb0cd5cc17a5 (0 users, state: 0x00000000, type: 4)
Sep 9 14:06:58 xenserver1 tapdisk[13478]: tapdisk-log: closing after 0
errors
Sep 9 14:06:58 xenserver1 tapdisk[13478]: tapdisk-syslog: 12 messages,
916 bytes, xmits: 14, failed: 0, dropped: 0
Sep 9 14:06:58 xenserver1 tapdisk[13478]: tapdisk-control: draining 1
connections
Sep 9 14:06:58 xenserver1 tapdisk[13478]: tapdisk-control: done
-------------------
After that the errors stop.
I''ve tried searching the xen-api and xen-users archives, as well as
google, but can''t seem to find any help.
Thanks,
Brett Westover
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Subject: [Xen-users] XCP Timeout trying to do quiesced snapshot of
WindowsServer 2008 Standard
I am running XCP 1.0.0
After running the "Install-XenProvider.cmd" in the Windows 2008
Standard
(64-bit) VM and rebooting, I am trying to do a quiesced snapshot of the
VM.
I use this command:
# xe vm-snapshot-with-quiesce vm=2008_Standard_Test
new-name-label=Test-Quiesce
After a considerable amount of time (5 minutes at least) it returns:
The VSS plug-in has timed out
vm: 2b4426e6-8eb3-c883-8e20-81286d895169 (2008_Standard_Test)
A snapshot is created, but presumably it''s not quiesced. Also, there
appears to be two disks attached to this VM. It wouldn''t shut down, so
I
forced it to power off. When I try to boot back up it says the VDI is
not found. If I detach the second disk, then it boots normally.
I have done this successfully with another VM, 2008 Enterprise 64-bit
and another Server 2003 32-bit.
Where do I start troubleshooting to find out where its breaking down and
why?
Thanks,
Brett Westover
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Todd Deshane
2011-Sep-10 01:50 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] XCP Timeout trying to do quiesced snapshot of WindowsServer 2008 Standard
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Brett Westover <bwestover@pletter.com> wrote:> > I''ve tried searching the xen-api and xen-users archives, as well as > google, but can''t seem to find any help.You might want to also search and ask on the Citrix XenServer forums. XCP 1.0 is based on XenServer 5.6 FP1. Also XCP 1.1 is in beta and an RC is expected out the end of next week. XCP 1.1 is based on XenServer 5.6 SP2. Hope that helps. Thanks, Todd -- Todd Deshane http://www.linkedin.com/in/deshantm http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html http://runningxen.com/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Brett Westover
2011-Sep-14 15:38 UTC
RE: [Xen-users] XCP Timeout trying to do quiesced snapshot of WindowsServer 2008 Standard
I have searched on the Citrix forum, and didn''t find anything. I''m afraid to ask because I''ve seen a number of posts where someone asks a question about XCP and gets shut down pretty quick, because they don''t support it. Has anyone had success doing a quiesced snapshot of Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 on XCP 1.0? Brett Westover -----Original Message----- From: todd.deshane.xen@gmail.com [mailto:todd.deshane.xen@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Todd Deshane Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 6:50 PM To: Brett Westover Cc: xen-users@lists.xensource.com Subject: Re: [Xen-users] XCP Timeout trying to do quiesced snapshot of WindowsServer 2008 Standard On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Brett Westover <bwestover@pletter.com> wrote:> > I''ve tried searching the xen-api and xen-users archives, as well as > google, but can''t seem to find any help.You might want to also search and ask on the Citrix XenServer forums. XCP 1.0 is based on XenServer 5.6 FP1. Also XCP 1.1 is in beta and an RC is expected out the end of next week. XCP 1.1 is based on XenServer 5.6 SP2. Hope that helps. Thanks, Todd -- Todd Deshane http://www.linkedin.com/in/deshantm http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html http://runningxen.com/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Todd Deshane
2011-Sep-14 16:35 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] XCP Timeout trying to do quiesced snapshot of WindowsServer 2008 Standard
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Brett Westover <bwestover@pletter.com> wrote:> I have searched on the Citrix forum, and didn''t find anything. I''m > afraid to ask because I''ve seen a number of posts where someone asks a > question about XCP and gets shut down pretty quick, because they don''t > support it. >XCP 1.0 is based on XenServer 5.6 FP1 (so if there is a known issue with that XenServer, it is also likely to affect XCP 1.0). We support XCP here on this list. It was just an issue that I didn''t have any experience with so I thought I''d try to give another place to search/ask. I think it is OK to ask on the Citrix XenServer forums about known issues with XenServer versions, since things are very similar with XCP the same insights apply. An XCP 1.1 RC is due out soon (last I heard end of this week). XCP is similar to XenServer 5.6 SP2 _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users