It also happens when you run xo-server as non-root user.

came across this topic.. i have exported a vm and trying to import it to another xcp. I had issues with the migration so i tried export and import and i have this error HTTP handler of vm.import undefined { "code": "IMPORT_ERROR_PREMATURE_EOF", "params": [], "url": "", "task": { "uuid": "efbc0249-0825-8465-5c4d-639609790062 ", "name_label": "[XO] VM import", "name_description": "", "allowed_operations": [], "current_operations": {}, "created": "20250121T22:23:40Z", "finished": "20250121T22:35:37Z", "status": "failure", "resident_on": "OpaqueRef:58799ebc-692a-4b39-a70c-fb97e63bcde7", "progress": 1, "type": "<none/>", "result": "", "error_info": [ "IMPORT_ERROR_PREMATURE_EOF" ], "other_config": { "object_creation": "complete" }, "subtask_of": "OpaqueRef:NULL", "subtasks": [], "backtrace": "(((process xapi)(filename lib/backtrace.ml)(line 210))((process xapi)(filename ocaml/xapi/import.ml)(line 2021))((process xapi)(filename ocaml/xapi/server_helpers.ml)(line 92)))" }, "pool_master": { "uuid": "700a5902-5b1d-49ec-a7c7-7be348163ff7", "name_label": "xcpbackup", 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"1789c3f5-f6d83203-2a500800-040001e3-00000007-218c0329-00400600-00000000-20001005-00000000-00000000-00000004-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000" }, "hostname": "xcpbackup", "address": "192.168.200.7", "metrics": "OpaqueRef:339bb82d-61a2-4597-8cd2-42451863e251 ", "license_params": { "restrict_vswitch_controller": "false", "restrict_lab": "false", "restrict_stage": "false", "restrict_storagelink": "false", "restrict_storagelink_site_recovery": "false", "restrict_web_selfservice": "false", "restrict_web_selfservice_manager": "false", "restrict_hotfix_apply": "false", "restrict_export_resource_data": "false", "restrict_read_caching": "false", "restrict_cifs": "false", "restrict_health_check": "false", "restrict_xcm": "false", "restrict_vm_memory_introspection": "false", "restrict_batch_hotfix_apply": "false", "restrict_management_on_vlan": "false", "restrict_ws_proxy": "false", "restrict_vlan": "false", "restrict_qos": "false", 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"restrict_nested_virt": "false", "restrict_live_patching": "false", "restrict_set_vcpus_number_live": "false", "restrict_pvs_proxy": "false", "restrict_igmp_snooping": "false", "restrict_rpu": "false", "restrict_pool_size": "false", "restrict_cbt": "false", "restrict_usb_passthrough": "false", "restrict_network_sriov": "false", "restrict_corosync": "true", "restrict_zstd_export": "false", "restrict_pool_secret_rotation": "false" }, "ha_statefiles": [], "ha_network_peers": [], "blobs": {}, "tags": [], "external_auth_type": "", "external_auth_service_name": "", "external_auth_configuration": {}, "edition": "xcp-ng", "license_server": { "address": "localhost", "port": "27000" }, "bios_strings": { "bios-vendor": "American Megatrends Inc.", "bios-version": "2424", "system-manufacturer": "ASUS", "system-product-name": "System Product Name", "system-version": "System Version", "system-serial-number": "System Serial Number", "baseboard-manufacturer": "ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.", 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"vdi_create", "vdi_destroy", "vdi_set_on_boot" ], "current_operations": {}, "VDIs": [], "PBDs": [ "OpaqueRef:1e0af0c7-c567-491c-9be6-66a7fe8853b7 " ], "virtual_allocation": 0, "physical_utilisation": 2125824, "physical_size": 15873616670720, "type": "ext", "content_type": "user", "shared": false, "other_config": {}, "tags": [], "sm_config": { "devserial": "scsi-35000cca2c1e707a0" }, "blobs": {}, "local_cache_enabled": false, "introduced_by": "OpaqueRef:NULL", "clustered": false, "is_tools_sr": false }, "message": "IMPORT_ERROR_PREMATURE_EOF()", "name": "XapiError", "stack": "XapiError: IMPORT_ERROR_PREMATURE_EOF() at Function.wrap (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202501180626/packages/xen-api/_XapiError.mjs:16:12) at default (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202501180626/packages/xen-api/_getTaskResult.mjs:13:29) at Xapi._addRecordToCache (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202501180626/packages/xen-api/index.mjs:1068:24) at file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202501180626/packages/xen-api/index.mjs:1102:14 at Array.forEach (<anonymous>) at Xapi._processEvents (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202501180626/packages/xen-api/index.mjs:1092:12) at Xapi._watchEvents (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202501180626/packages/xen-api/index.mjs:1265:14)" }

/v6 worth a try, I think it's solved in there (and also in XO Lite)

@olivierlambert said in Mirror failed: @AlexanderK said in Mirror failed: "OLD_447ff17a-82bc-4d49-a177-02f9086e9a04 That's the missing bit reported by XAPI/SM, indeed. Does this mean it is a bug?

@Meth0d thanks for sharing your experience. Fortunately I was able to just hit "Convert to HVM" after my imported PV failed to reboot after upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04 - was all set to load a livecd etc too!

Using XOA "Disaster Recovery" backup method can be a lot faster than normal offline migration. One time I did it, it took approx 10 minutes instead of 2 hours...

yep i know but i think it is much better to have 2 Ext SR each with 1 hdd than to have 1 SR with a raid with 2 hdd, regarding downtime in case of failure disk

@manilx Just happened on our production Pools. Snapshotting Windows Server 2022 crashes our ERP VM! Opening official ticket referencing this thread.

You can check if there's an Github issue opened for that. If yes, you can track the status. If not, there's little chance it would be done

@Danp I got around this by using Clonezilla to copy the disks of the 2 VMs I was having an issue with. This is very strange. The VMs booted and ran fine on the old host, I was able to clone them with Clonezilla to the new host where they also boot and run fine. There is something preventing the native tools from migrating these specific disks though.

@propsoft said in Can .keeper files be deleted from the backup share?: @florent Thank you. I just like things to be 'tidy' that's why I asked. Then stop looking at hidden files.... HA

Many thanks @nathanael-h & @shinuza , both approaches indeed work!

@DustinB As to why you're seeing "VM not found!" I don't know if that is a XO alert or something you added into the screenshot, I've never seen that so I can't speak to it. I didn't add the text, all I did was highlight it with the red surround. Just testing the backups again using the 'Delta' method and '[NOSNAP][NOBAK] Data drive' as the name of the second drive , feeling more hopeful about this one though. I'm starting to like XO the more I use it, would be good to move to this instead of switching between 2 different XCP-ng Center EXEs. depending on the XCP-ng version on the host so I really hope I can get this to work. The scheduled hourly snapshot while the guest is running looks a great feature, although I need to learn to walk with this first before I go that far

Permissions will come in XO 6 this year

@HamiltonWDS Thanks for the report. As it works with wget let use it! I'll switch from curl to wget in doc. In the meantime some colleagues will investigate more.

Sure, happy to have a PR on our doc!

Thank you very much for the clear explanation @HamiltonWDS ! This will be really helpful so we find a solution for that. We might default to IPv4 for a lot higher latency, and in the future maybe having closer location mirrors. Let me discuss this internally and schedule an action for that.

The simple answer here is to use the Continuous Replication backup type. It'll copy the VM to another host on whatever schedule you set. It couldn't be simpler.

@olivierlambert No, i changed nothing.The boot Mode is UEFI (see first screenshot). I will check if a downgrade (if it's possible) fix this issue.