Xen users - Feb 2013 - Error Starting Virtual Machines on XCP

Hi All,

I have XCP 1.1.0-50674c running on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 system with a couple of
virtual machines running on it. The virtual machines that are currently running
are working fine, however I cannot start the virtual machines are are currently
powered off. The error in the XenCenter (version 6) logs says "Internal
error: Device.PV_Vnc.Failed_to_start". I also tried to start the virtual
machine using xe command but to no avail. I have tried to start different
virtual machines on the same XCP hosts, and I get the same error (mentioned
above) every time I try to start a virtual machine. The XCP system tries to
start the virtual machine for about 20-25 minutes before giving up.

I haven''t added or removed any hardware from the Dell PowerEdge system
on which XCP is running. The only modifications to the virtual machines were
adding (and removing) network interfaces. I also suspect that if I take the
running virtual machines down, I won''t be able to bring them back up
again.

I searched the internet for answers, but couldn''t find any convincing
ones. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Amit

Hi Amit,

Questions about XCP are generally better asked on the (badly named)
xen-api@ list. I''ve CCd it for you here.

Cheers,
Ian.

On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 19:34 +0000, Amit More wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have XCP 1.1.0-50674c running on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 system with a
> couple of virtual machines running on it. The virtual machines that
> are currently running are working fine, however I cannot start the
> virtual machines are are currently powered off. The error in the
> XenCenter (version 6) logs says "Internal error:
> Device.PV_Vnc.Failed_to_start". I also tried to start the virtual
> machine using xe command but to no avail. I have tried to start
> different virtual machines on the same XCP hosts, and I get the same
> error (mentioned above) every time I try to start a virtual machine.
> The XCP system tries to start the virtual machine for about 20-25
> minutes before giving up. 
> 
> I haven''t added or removed any hardware from the Dell PowerEdge
system
> on which XCP is running. The only modifications to the virtual
> machines were adding (and removing) network interfaces. I also suspect
> that if I take the running virtual machines down, I won''t be able
to
> bring them back up again. 
> 
> I searched the internet for answers, but couldn''t find any
convincing
> ones. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Amit 
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