Virtual Machines are not starting automatically
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Hello, everyone.
I am setting up a fresh 8.2.1 host with all patches applied. Right now just a couple of essential VMs which are set to start automatically on host power up. For whatever reason the VMs are not starting automatically and I have to start them up manually. What can be the reason for such behavior?
Thanks for any advice in advance,
One of the VM's param-list
xe vm-param-list uuid=e607debe-a04f-1744-a305-efe3fb97a952 uuid ( RO) : e607debe-a04f-1744-a305-efe3fb97a952 name-label ( RW): (SI1-FW1) - MIGRATION FROM XXX- PFSENSE - (20230604T133424Z)_clone name-description ( RW): pFsense 2.5.2 (SI1-FW1) - 92.xxx.248.45 user-version ( RW): 1 is-a-template ( RW): false is-default-template ( RW): false is-a-snapshot ( RO): false snapshot-of ( RO): <not in database> snapshots ( RO): snapshot-time ( RO): 19700101T00:00:00Z snapshot-info ( RO): parent ( RO): <not in database> children ( RO): is-control-domain ( RO): false power-state ( RO): running memory-actual ( RO): 8589930496 memory-target ( RO): 8589934592 memory-overhead ( RO): 73400320 memory-static-max ( RW): 8589934592 memory-dynamic-max ( RW): 8589934592 memory-dynamic-min ( RW): 4294967296 memory-static-min ( RW): 134217728 suspend-VDI-uuid ( RW): <not in database> suspend-SR-uuid ( RW): <not in database> VCPUs-params (MRW): weight: 256 VCPUs-max ( RW): 4 VCPUs-at-startup ( RW): 4 actions-after-shutdown ( RW): Destroy actions-after-reboot ( RW): Restart actions-after-crash ( RW): Restart console-uuids (SRO): 1452896d-ac5a-5093-4e3e-1b6f93bf0a4b hvm ( RO): true platform (MRW): timeoffset: 1; nic_type: e1000; device-model: qemu-upstream-compat; hpet: true; nx: true; secureboot: false; pae: true; apic: true; viridian: true; acpi: 1; cores-per-socket: 4 allowed-operations (SRO): changing_dynamic_range; changing_VCPUs_live; hard_reboot; hard_shutdown; clean_reboot; clean_shutdown; pause; snapshot current-operations (SRO): blocked-operations (MRW): destroy: true allowed-VBD-devices (SRO): 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29; 30; 31; 32; 33; 34; 35; 36; 37; 38; 39; 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48; 49; 50; 51; 52; 53; 54; 55; 56; 57; 58; 59; 60; 61; 62; 63; 64; 65; 66; 67; 68; 69; 70; 71; 72; 73; 74; 75; 76; 77; 78; 79; 80; 81; 82; 83; 84; 85; 86; 87; 88; 89; 90; 91; 92; 93; 94; 95; 96; 97; 98; 99; 100; 101; 102; 103; 104; 105; 106; 107; 108; 109; 110; 111; 112; 113; 114; 115; 116; 117; 118; 119; 120; 121; 122; 123; 124; 125; 126; 127; 128; 129; 130; 131; 132; 133; 134; 135; 136; 137; 138; 139; 140; 141; 142; 143; 144; 145; 146; 147; 148; 149; 150; 151; 152; 153; 154; 155; 156; 157; 158; 159; 160; 161; 162; 163; 164; 165; 166; 167; 168; 169; 170; 171; 172; 173; 174; 175; 176; 177; 178; 179; 180; 181; 182; 183; 184; 185; 186; 187; 188; 189; 190; 191; 192; 193; 194; 195; 196; 197; 198; 199; 200; 201; 202; 203; 204; 205; 206; 207; 208; 209; 210; 211; 212; 213; 214; 215; 216; 217; 218; 219; 220; 221; 222; 223; 224; 225; 226; 227; 228; 229; 230; 231; 232; 233; 234; 235; 236; 237; 238; 239; 240; 241; 242; 243; 244; 245; 246; 247; 248; 249; 250; 251; 252; 253; 254 allowed-VIF-devices (SRO): 2; 3; 4; 5; 6 possible-hosts ( RO): 9101b375-2c2f-45df-99b3-fd164974e84f domain-type ( RW): hvm current-domain-type ( RO): hvm HVM-boot-policy ( RW): BIOS order HVM-boot-params (MRW): firmware: bios; order: cd HVM-shadow-multiplier ( RW): 1.000 PV-kernel ( RW): PV-ramdisk ( RW): PV-args ( RW): PV-legacy-args ( RW): PV-bootloader ( RW): PV-bootloader-args ( RW): last-boot-CPU-flags ( RO): vendor: GenuineIntel; features: 1fcbfbff-f7fa3223-2c100800-00000121-00000001-001c0fab-00000000-00000000-00001000-9c000400-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000 last-boot-record ( RO): '' resident-on ( RO): 9101b375-2c2f-45df-99b3-fd164974e84f affinity ( RW): <not in database> other-config (MRW): pci: 0/0000:03:00.0; xo:backup:job: 2934e755-a3a0-4754-8571-054c6842cc29; xo:backup:sr: a111b6fb-be51-d8d4-eade-ad683d842a98; xo:backup:datetime: 20230604T13:34:24Z; xo:backup:schedule: b6909bf3-a7a1-45f1-8d5f-cb40985ed89d; xo:backup:vm: 8ce4da44-0fcb-bef0-76e4-f6dca2df547d; auto_poweron: true; folder: /Firewalls; base_template_name: Other install media; import_task: OpaqueRef:d41d6d8e-48f4-433b-8da5-22398b6e3843; mac_seed: 8f0081e9-8c37-f219-8a8c-8e848ac0ad17; install-methods: cdrom; xo:copy_of: a414893b-e38d-24e7-bdfb-9571f812ec8a dom-id ( RO): 2 recommendations ( RO): <restrictions><restriction field="memory-static-max" max="137438953472"/><restriction field="vcpus-max" max="32"/><restriction field="has-vendor-device" value="false"/><restriction field="supports-bios" value="yes"/><restriction field="supports-uefi" value="yes"/><restriction field="supports-secure-boot" value="yes"/><restriction max="255" property="number-of-vbds"/><restriction max="7" property="number-of-vifs"/></restrictions> xenstore-data (MRW): vm-data/mmio-hole-size: 536870912; vm-data: ha-always-run ( RW) [DEPRECATED]: false ha-restart-priority ( RW): blobs ( RO): start-time ( RO): 20230605T11:35:34Z install-time ( RO): 20230604T13:51:38Z VCPUs-number ( RO): 4 VCPUs-utilisation (MRO): 0: 0.007; 1: 0.006; 2: 0.006; 3: 0.005 os-version (MRO): name: FreeBSD 12.3-STABLE; uname: 12.3-STABLE; distro: FreeBSD PV-drivers-version (MRO): major: 6; minor: 2; micro: 0; build: 76888 PV-drivers-up-to-date ( RO) [DEPRECATED]: true memory (MRO): disks (MRO): VBDs (SRO): 1fd4bd46-4eec-476f-9ab5-afe2939074be networks (MRO): 1/ip: 192.168.0.253; 1/ipv4/0: 192.168.0.253 PV-drivers-detected ( RO): true other (MRO): platform-feature-xs_reset_watches: 1; platform-feature-multiprocessor-suspend: 1; has-vendor-device: 0; feature-balloon: 1 live ( RO): true guest-metrics-last-updated ( RO): 20230605T11:37:18Z can-use-hotplug-vbd ( RO): unspecified can-use-hotplug-vif ( RO): unspecified cooperative ( RO) [DEPRECATED]: true tags (SRW): Continuous Replication appliance ( RW): <not in database> snapshot-schedule ( RW): <not in database> is-vmss-snapshot ( RO): false start-delay ( RW): 0 shutdown-delay ( RW): 0 order ( RW): 0 version ( RO): 0 generation-id ( RO): hardware-platform-version ( RO): 0 has-vendor-device ( RW): false requires-reboot ( RO): false reference-label ( RO): bios-strings (MRO): bios-vendor: Xen; bios-version: ; system-manufacturer: Xen; system-product-name: HVM domU; system-version: ; system-serial-number: ; baseboard-manufacturer: ; baseboard-product-name: ; baseboard-version: ; baseboard-serial-number: ; baseboard-asset-tag: ; baseboard-location-in-chassis: ; enclosure-asset-tag: ; hp-rombios: ; oem-1: Xen; oem-2: MS_VM_CERT/SHA1/bdbeb6e0a816d43fa6d3fe8aaef04c2bad9d3e3d -
I noticed the same, xen orchestra isn't starting with the xcp-ng after a restart.. annoying.
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Untoggle/re-toggle the auto power on for any VM of your choice, try again.
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@Kuningaskunta This behavior was observed even before I applied patches.
I am on single-socker Xeon D-1521, 128GB ECC, 9300-8i HBA, 3 x 2TB QVO SSDs.
Anything in your hardware similar?
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@olivierlambert I am always following your instructions like a good student listens to his master in school. Let me try and reboot
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@olivierlambert It is so easy for you to make someone a happier person! Thanks, the trick you suggested worked for me
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So I think the problem is:
- when you toggle auto power on a VM, it also enable it at the pool level (required to make it work)
- however, if you migrated VMs to this pool with the auto power on enable, it was not enabled on the pool first
That's why, disable/enable fixed it. It should probably be a setting in Pool/advanced, but it's some UI work to make it logical
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@olivierlambert This is correct, your logic is spot on. The pFsense VM was soft-migrated with continuous replication. However the XO VM was made afresh from scratch and it was not starting. Anyway, things work as expected now, thanks!
