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    • O Offline
      Olest
      last edited by

      I'll update again with the latest commits.

      How do I force the import task to stop so I can remove the failed import and start over?

      Could the problem be that I am using a VMware free for my test? Not sure if remote shutdown is supported.

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      • olivierlambertO Online
        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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        1. If the task can't be cancelled, then a simple shutdown of xo-server will stop it
        2. For VMware version, I can't tell. Have you tried without warm migration?
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          Olest
          last edited by

          I'm using NodeJS v18.19.1

          How do you shutdown VM remote from XO if I should dig into if ESXI free is the problem?

          Have updated XO and deleted failed VM import.

          Trying import with cold migration.

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          • olivierlambertO Online
            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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            Let's see first if it works in cold migration 🙂

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              Olest
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              Cold migration worked without errors 🙂

              But it cannot boot - any idea?

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              • olivierlambertO Online
                olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                Yes: /dev/sda2 doesn't exist anymore, it's likely /dev/xvda2 instead, since it's using Xen (assuming you have PV drivers in such old CentOS version)

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                  Olest
                  last edited by

                  Hard to restore the VM at VMware as the migration in XO broke the VM.
                  Updated to Centos 5.11 and halted it manually before migration and this time it can boot fine.

                  BUT cold migration still broke the VM on VMware.

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                  • olivierlambertO Online
                    olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                    last edited by

                    It's like because of a lock file not released 🤔

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                    • O Offline
                      Olest
                      last edited by

                      No lock files to find but left for 30 min and when I came back the error was gone...

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                      • olivierlambertO Online
                        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                        Probably a timer on the lock on VMware side. Since the transfer finished, the lock was released in the end after some time.

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                          Olest
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                          Looks like PowerOffVM_Task is not supported on ESXI Free.
                          Maybe you could read the ESXI license information and disable warm migration for ESXI Free.
                          Or ask user to shutdown VM when ready. Right now it just hang waiting for VM to shutdown.

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                          • olivierlambertO Online
                            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                            That's interesting 🤔 florent ?

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                            • florentF Offline
                              florent Vates 🪐 XO Team @Olest
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                              Olest
                              that's a nice catch, every day I discover new limits of the vmware licensing . At least we could catch the error and show something useful to the user

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                                DustinB @florent
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                                florent said in Import from VMware:

                                Olest
                                that's a nice catch, every day I discover new limits of the vmware licensing . At least we could catch the error and show something useful to the user

                                Just wait, everything free from VMWare is going away, so it'll just be the assumption that if you should be able to do it, you won't be able to.

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