How do you create a new vm from an imported disk

[olivierlambert]

What do you mean? Can you be more explicit?

[pnunn]

The VM tries to boot to the newly added .vhd disk, but is unable to find anything to boot from.

P.

[olivierlambert]

Try to boot with a live CD (eg Ubuntu) and access the disk content from there. Maybe you need to chroot and reinstall grub, and reload initrd if Xen drivers aren't there.

[pnunn]

I found the instructions here https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Migrating-from-other-hypervisors and it talks about using dracut on the vm before the export, do you think this is worth a try?

[olivierlambert]

That might do the trick, yes Worth trying!

[pnunn]

Groan... maybe testing with a machine what actually boots in kvm to start with would be a good idea... trust me to pick a broken machine to test with... now.. lets try that again shall we? Sorry for wasting your time all... will report back how I go with a working machine.

P.

[olivierlambert]

hahaha no worries, it happens

[pnunn]

So very very close.

I have migrated a ubuntu 19.04 machine from KVM to my lab, and managed to get it to boot, until!! I tried to attach the guest-tools cd to install them.

I got an error that said the cd is not fully installed, restart the vm.

I tried that, and now the machine refuses to boot at all with the old "unknown error".

vm.start
{
  "id": "3ffe9f7e-cf37-3003-348f-766c7059ff49"
}
{
  "code": "VDI_MISSING",
  "params": [
    "OpaqueRef:a70e1e33-4a17-4d6b-961f-6e4044aed54d",
    "OpaqueRef:0aa6eb4a-1c93-4227-952c-ec47fb3b29fe"
  ],
  "call": {
    "method": "VM.start",
    "params": [
      "OpaqueRef:72c1f833-98d9-41b8-80b4-f531cdd77861",
      false,
      false
    ]
  },
  "message": "VDI_MISSING(OpaqueRef:a70e1e33-4a17-4d6b-961f-6e4044aed54d, OpaqueRef:0aa6eb4a-1c93-4227-952c-ec47fb3b29fe)",
  "name": "XapiError",
  "stack": "XapiError: VDI_MISSING(OpaqueRef:a70e1e33-4a17-4d6b-961f-6e4044aed54d, OpaqueRef:0aa6eb4a-1c93-4227-952c-ec47fb3b29fe)
    at Function.wrap (/home/pnunn/xen-orchestra/packages/xen-api/src/_XapiError.js:16:12)
    at _httpRequestPlus.default.post.readAll.then.text (/home/pnunn/xen-orchestra/packages/xen-api/src/transports/json-rpc.js:35:27)
    at tryCatcher (/home/pnunn/xen-orchestra/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
    at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/home/pnunn/xen-orchestra/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:547:31)
    at Promise._settlePromise (/home/pnunn/xen-orchestra/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:604:18)
    at Promise._settlePromise0 (/home/pnunn/xen-orchestra/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:649:10)
    at Promise._settlePromises (/home/pnunn/xen-orchestra/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:729:18)
    at _drainQueueStep (/home/pnunn/xen-orchestra/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:93:12)
    at _drainQueue (/home/pnunn/xen-orchestra/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:86:9)
    at Async._drainQueues (/home/pnunn/xen-orchestra/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:102:5)
    at Immediate.Async.drainQueues [as _onImmediate] (/home/pnunn/xen-orchestra/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:15:14)
    at runCallback (timers.js:705:18)
    at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:676:5)
    at processImmediate (timers.js:658:5)"
} 

[olivierlambert]

Eject the CD and try to boot.

[pnunn]

Ughh. thought I tried that. Just did it with the machine off and its now booting again, thank you, however, that doesn't get the tools installed.

After some mucking around, it seems I can mount pretty much any other .iso from the iso store but note the guest-tools.iso for some reason. It just does nothing now (as in, the pulldown list is just showing "select disk(s)".

[pnunn]

OK, seems I wasn't trying hard enough.

I was trying to mount the tools under the iso list, but when I look further down the list to xc-ng Tools it turns out I can mount the tools from there as long as I do it manually (mount /dev/sr0 /media/blahblah).

Installed now, all good.