Import OVA silently fails

olivierlambert

This is a RAM issue. Raise your XOA RAM to 4GiB, if it continues, follow: https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/troubleshooting.html#memory

Andrew C

After making those changes, it got further, but still halted at about 10%. (I upped to 8GB RAM)

Apr  8 16:38:22 xoa xo-server[467]: 2020-04-08T20:38:22.411Z xo:xapi DEBUG Creating VM Spiceworks-Production
Apr  8 16:38:22 xoa xo-server[467]: 2020-04-08T20:38:22.482Z xo:xapi DEBUG Creating VDI Hard disk 1 on Local storage
Apr  8 16:38:22 xoa xo-server[467]: 2020-04-08T20:38:22.483Z xo:xapi DEBUG Creating VIF for VM Spiceworks-Production on network MGMT-LAN
Apr  8 16:38:23 xoa xo-server[467]: 2020-04-08T20:38:23.294Z xo:xapi DEBUG Creating VBD for VDI Hard disk 1 on VM [Importing...] Spiceworks-Production
Apr  8 16:38:27 xoa kernel: [   66.534931] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:18:0a:86:53:c4:08:00 SRC=0.0.0.0 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=2660 PROTO=2 
Apr  8 16:40:37 xoa kernel: [  196.531337] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:18:0a:86:53:c4:08:00 SRC=0.0.0.0 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=2665 PROTO=2 
Apr  8 16:42:47 xoa kernel: [  326.527746] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:18:0a:86:53:c4:08:00 SRC=0.0.0.0 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=2671 PROTO=2 
Apr  8 16:44:16 xoa xoa-updater[472]: 2020-04-08T20:44:14.045Z xoa-updater WARN onMessage Error: Command failed: xenstore-read vm
Apr  8 16:44:16 xoa xoa-updater[472]: fatal error: runtime: out of memory
Apr  8 16:44:16 xoa xoa-updater[472]: runtime stack:
Apr  8 16:44:16 xoa xoa-updater[472]: runtime.throw(0x8108647, 0x16)

Here is my xo-server.service

ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node --max-old-space-size=7680 /usr/local/bin/xo-server

Anything else we can try?

olivierlambert

So there's a leak when you import How big is the OVA?

Can you try with the OVA CLI?

Andrew C

The VM is 138GB. I read those instructions, what i am failing to understand is where and how I point it to my local disk? Do you have an example of using a file in C:\Export (on a windows box)?

The example the OVA appears to be local to XOA?

Please advise,
Thank you

Andrew C

I have tried to use a SR that is used for ISO:

xo-upload-ova --upload Spiceworks-Production.ova 1fee8757-644e-2bce-beb0-9f85380a5842 --override 'nameLabel=test' descriptionLabel='Spiceworks' memory=json:671088640 disks.vmdisk1.descriptionLabel='disk description' disks.vmdisk1.capacity=json:1342177280

The issue of course is, how do i get the settings for disk size and memory. When i try to:

 xo-upload-ova --inspect Spiceworks-Production.ova 1fee8757-644e-2bce-beb0-9f85380a5842

It doesn't know where that file is, does it have to be on a Local SR to XOA?

olivierlambert

Ping @nraynaud who did that

nraynaud

I am looking into it on my side. I might come back with questions.

Andrew C

OK no problem, i look forward to hearing from you.

Andrew C

@nraynaud Any update?

nraynaud

I'm still on it, I think I found an unrelated bug whose effect would be to upload a VM without any disk.

nraynaud

I think I got the bug, there is some cleanup and QA to be done before releasing a fix.

bnerickson

@nraynaud Thanks for working on this. Is the fix pushed to the latest stream or still in QA?

olivierlambert

It will be released very soon (for this month release)

bnerickson

@olivierlambert Thanks!