VM's from ESXi, live migration not possible
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I am running an proof of concept for the company I work for to migrate 16 of our ESXi hosts to XCP-NG, which I am running at home for years now with great succes.
Importing a couple of virtual machines to the newly created XCP-NG pool went great using the builtin tool of Xen Orchestra.
However, after installing the XenServer tools it still is not possible for me to do a live migration of the migrated virtual machines.The error I am getting is VM_LACKS_FEATURE.
It does however work for newly created virtual machines (Windows Server 2022 and Debian 12)
I did test with the latest XCP-NG tools and with the latest XenServer tools, no difference there.The Windows Server 2022 that does work and has the XenServer tools installed.
The following hints me to a working and not working situation, the machine that does not want to live migrate (imported from ESXi) show up with "Management agent detected" and the newly created server 2022 shows up as "Management agent 9.3.2-110 detected"
Working VM:
Not working VM:
Also in XCP-NG center (I know, not supported):
The option shows
And here the option doesn't show:
Any hints what this can be?
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@olivierlambert The problem with fully installing the tools is our antivirus solution SentinelOne. Simply pausing the agent + reboot gave the XenTools the possibility to install succesfully. After a succesfull installation, enabling the SentinelOne agent again is possible without any other issues regarding the tools or drivers.
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Also after disconnecting the VHD, creating a new similar virtual machine and attaching the VHD, there is no difference in live migration capability or tools version showing up
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Can you show the output of
xe vm-param-list uuid=<VM UUID>for both VMs so we can compare and see the diff? -
@olivierlambert
SRS2022_Test:[12:02 hxctx05 ~]# xe vm-param-list uuid=351b9e5b-c5b8-3893-6942-1bcd58d7c9e1 uuid ( RO) : 351b9e5b-c5b8-3893-6942-1bcd58d7c9e1 name-label ( RW): SRV2022_Test name-description ( RW): 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): 8592023552 memory-target ( RO): 0 memory-overhead ( RO): 73400320 memory-static-max ( RW): 8589934592 memory-dynamic-max ( RW): 8589934592 memory-dynamic-min ( RW): 8589934592 memory-static-min ( RW): 1073741824 suspend-VDI-uuid ( RW): <not in database> suspend-SR-uuid ( RW): <not in database> VCPUs-params (MRW): 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): 7bb85a23-6c56-61f2-45b1-645f913b0419 hvm ( RO): true platform (MRW): timeoffset: -25200; device-model: qemu-upstream-uefi; secureboot: false; videoram: 8; hpet: true; viridian_apic_assist: true; apic: true; device_id: 0002; cores-per-socket: 2; viridian_crash_ctl: true; pae: true; vga: std; nx: true; viridian_time_ref_count: true; viridian_stimer: true; viridian: true; acpi: 1; viridian_reference_tsc: true allowed-operations (SRO): changing_dynamic_range; migrate_send; pool_migrate; changing_VCPUs_live; suspend; hard_reboot; hard_shutdown; clean_reboot; clean_shutdown; pause; checkpoint; snapshot current-operations (SRO): blocked-operations (MRW): allowed-VBD-devices (SRO): 1; 2; 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): 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6 possible-hosts ( RO): a235982c-c51a-4578-82bb-51e8c6d37bed domain-type ( RW): hvm current-domain-type ( RO): hvm HVM-boot-policy ( RW): BIOS order HVM-boot-params (MRW): firmware: uefi; 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-f7fa3223-2c100800-00000121-0000000f-009c0fab-00000008-00000000-00001000-bc000400-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-0c000004-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000 last-boot-record ( RO): '' resident-on ( RO): a235982c-c51a-4578-82bb-51e8c6d37bed affinity ( RW): <not in database> other-config (MRW): xo:351b9e5b: {"creation":{"date":"2024-04-17T19:51:42.647Z","template":"1c33af1c-e919-418c-ad45-85d7d6fb604a","user":"00b23cda-6f3e-42a0-ac32-8074336f5363"}}; base_template_name: Windows Server 2022 (64-bit); import_task: OpaqueRef:a775fe45-36e8-435f-8919-21dced27a55a; mac_seed: 8ca53f9c-82eb-d664-4346-74e8e3db8045; install-methods: cdrom dom-id ( RO): 10 recommendations ( RO): <restrictions><restriction field="memory-static-max" max="1649267441664"/><restriction field="vcpus-min" min="2"/><restriction field="vcpus-max" max="32"/><restriction field="has-vendor-device" value="true"/><restriction field="allow-network-sriov" value="1"/><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: 268435456; vm-data: ha-always-run ( RW) [DEPRECATED]: false ha-restart-priority ( RW): blobs ( RO): start-time ( RO): 20240417T20:00:37Z install-time ( RO): 20240417T19:51:44Z VCPUs-number ( RO): 4 VCPUs-utilisation (MRO): 0: 0.008; 1: 0.004; 2: 0.003; 3: 0.003 os-version (MRO): name: Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard|C:\Windows|\Device\Harddisk0\Partition3; distro: windows; major: 10; minor: 0; spmajor: 0; spminor: 0 PV-drivers-version (MRO): major: 9; minor: 3; micro: 2; build: 110 PV-drivers-up-to-date ( RO) [DEPRECATED]: true memory (MRO): disks (MRO): VBDs (SRO): f32a601a-840e-98a3-08e3-95fb63acc547; 09eb4ebf-874c-4543-dc17-b57680628684 networks (MRO): 0/ip: 10.1.3.196; 0/ipv4/0: 10.1.3.196; 0/ipv6/0: fe80:0000:0000:0000:8cf2:5497:8793:ed3a PV-drivers-detected ( RO): true other (MRO): platform-feature-xs_reset_watches: 1; platform-feature-multiprocessor-suspend: 1; has-vendor-device: 0; feature-xs-batcmd: 1; feature-wuRebootRequired: 1; feature-updatetime: 1; feature-ts2: 1; feature-ts: 1; feature-suspend: 1; feature-static-ip-setting: 1; feature-shutdown: 1; feature-setcomputername: 1; feature-s4: 1; feature-s3: 1; feature-reboot: 1; feature-poweroff: 1; feature-laptop-slate-mode: 1; feature-balloon: 1; data-ts: 0 live ( RO): true guest-metrics-last-updated ( RO): 20240417T20:00:56Z can-use-hotplug-vbd ( RO): true can-use-hotplug-vif ( RO): true cooperative ( RO) [DEPRECATED]: true tags (SRW): 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): 5943050155679112586:446876449901291824 hardware-platform-version ( RO): 0 has-vendor-device ( RW): false requires-reboot ( RO): false reference-label ( RO): windows-server-2022-64bit 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/bdbeb6e0a816d43fa6d3fe8aaef04c2bad9d3e3dCTX035002:
[12:03 hxctx05 ~]# xe vm-param-list uuid=e729854b-3956-97ca-c7f0-f2155099bfb2 uuid ( RO) : e729854b-3956-97ca-c7f0-f2155099bfb2 name-label ( RW): CTX035002 name-description ( RW): from esxi 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): 30066860032 memory-target ( RO): 30064771072 memory-overhead ( RO): 243269632 memory-static-max ( RW): 30064771072 memory-dynamic-max ( RW): 30064771072 memory-dynamic-min ( RW): 30064771072 memory-static-min ( RW): 30064771072 suspend-VDI-uuid ( RW): <not in database> suspend-SR-uuid ( RW): <not in database> VCPUs-params (MRW): VCPUs-max ( RW): 6 VCPUs-at-startup ( RW): 6 actions-after-shutdown ( RW): Destroy actions-after-reboot ( RW): Restart actions-after-crash ( RW): Restart console-uuids (SRO): 13b8a928-e790-e724-2a80-919fd1fe8848 hvm ( RO): true platform (MRW): timeoffset: 7200; device-model: qemu-upstream-uefi; nx: true; acpi: 1; apic: true; pae: true; hpet: true; viridian: true allowed-operations (SRO): changing_dynamic_range; hard_reboot; hard_shutdown; clean_reboot; clean_shutdown; pause; snapshot current-operations (SRO): blocked-operations (MRW): allowed-VBD-devices (SRO): 1; 2; 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): 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6 possible-hosts ( RO): 230365b3-4916-43bc-8a25-65c000b6937e; a235982c-c51a-4578-82bb-51e8c6d37bed domain-type ( RW): hvm current-domain-type ( RO): hvm HVM-boot-policy ( RW): BIOS order HVM-boot-params (MRW): firmware: uefi; order: cdn 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-f7fa3223-2c100800-00000121-0000000f-009c0fab-00000008-00000000-00001000-bc000400-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-0c000004-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000 last-boot-record ( RO): '' resident-on ( RO): 230365b3-4916-43bc-8a25-65c000b6937e affinity ( RW): <not in database> other-config (MRW): mac_seed: b5a38321-902b-94c2-9df0-7a62fa53fca0; vgpu_pci: ; base_template_name: Other install media; install-methods: cdrom dom-id ( RO): 22 recommendations ( RO): <restrictions><restriction field="memory-static-max" max="137438953472" /><restriction field="vcpus-max" max="32" /><restriction property="number-of-vbds" max="255" /><restriction property="number-of-vifs" max="7" /><restriction field="has-vendor-device" value="false" /></restrictions> xenstore-data (MRW): vm-data/mmio-hole-size: 268435456; vm-data: ha-always-run ( RW) [DEPRECATED]: false ha-restart-priority ( RW): blobs ( RO): start-time ( RO): 20240418T10:03:55Z install-time ( RO): 19700101T00:00:00Z VCPUs-number ( RO): 6 VCPUs-utilisation (MRO): 0: 0.712; 1: 0.751; 2: 0.760; 3: 0.730; 4: 0.670; 5: 0.696 os-version (MRO): name: Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard|C:\WINDOWS|\Device\Harddisk0\Partition3; distro: windows; major: 10; minor: 0; spmajor: 0; spminor: 0 PV-drivers-version (MRO): PV-drivers-up-to-date ( RO) [DEPRECATED]: true memory (MRO): disks (MRO): VBDs (SRO): a61b6a43-9010-4d16-f6f2-dbd115ab63ba; 51ab5bd8-f039-e3cd-2592-99481b2c34ac networks (MRO): 0/ip: 10.1.3.228; 0/ipv4/0: 10.1.3.228; 0/ipv6/0: fe80:0000:0000:0000:4324:f2d3:7183:52db PV-drivers-detected ( RO): true other (MRO): platform-feature-xs_reset_watches: 1; platform-feature-multiprocessor-suspend: 1; has-vendor-device: 0; feature-xs-batcmd: 1; feature-wuRebootRequired: 1; feature-updatetime: 1; feature-ts2: 1; feature-ts: 1; data-cant-suspend-reason: {"error":{"class":"GenericError","desc":"State blocked by non-migratable device '0000:00:07.0/nvme'","data":{}},"id":"qmp-000253-22"}; feature-static-ip-setting: 1; feature-shutdown: 1; feature-setcomputername: 1; feature-s4: 1; feature-s3: 1; feature-reboot: 1; feature-poweroff: 1; feature-laptop-slate-mode: 1; feature-balloon: 1; data-ts: 1 live ( RO): true guest-metrics-last-updated ( RO): 20240418T10:04:19Z can-use-hotplug-vbd ( RO): unspecified can-use-hotplug-vif ( RO): true cooperative ( RO) [DEPRECATED]: true tags (SRW): 0350 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): 3441820287309222538:4765684607619708731 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 -
Also just tried a warm migration with CTX035001 (also imported from ESXi, like CTX035002) but this doesn't change the ability to live migrate
Output of this VM now is:
[12:05 hxctx05 ~]# xe vm-param-list uuid=60fcb435-4436-5fab-a0f4-00011f534d7a uuid ( RO) : 60fcb435-4436-5fab-a0f4-00011f534d7a name-label ( RW): CTX035001 - Warm migration - (20240418T100016Z) name-description ( RW): 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): 30066860032 memory-target ( RO): 30064771072 memory-overhead ( RO): 243269632 memory-static-max ( RW): 30064771072 memory-dynamic-max ( RW): 30064771072 memory-dynamic-min ( RW): 30064771072 memory-static-min ( RW): 1073741824 suspend-VDI-uuid ( RW): <not in database> suspend-SR-uuid ( RW): <not in database> VCPUs-params (MRW): VCPUs-max ( RW): 6 VCPUs-at-startup ( RW): 6 actions-after-shutdown ( RW): Destroy actions-after-reboot ( RW): Restart actions-after-crash ( RW): Restart console-uuids (SRO): 7384aa3f-fd71-db2e-2cee-2db7d64068e3 hvm ( RO): true platform (MRW): timeoffset: 7200; device-model: qemu-upstream-uefi; secureboot: false; videoram: 8; hpet: true; viridian_apic_assist: true; apic: true; device_id: 0002; cores-per-socket: 2; viridian_crash_ctl: true; pae: true; vga: std; nx: true; viridian_time_ref_count: true; viridian_stimer: true; viridian: true; acpi: 1; viridian_reference_tsc: true allowed-operations (SRO): changing_dynamic_range; hard_reboot; hard_shutdown; clean_reboot; clean_shutdown; pause; snapshot current-operations (SRO): blocked-operations (MRW): 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): 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6 possible-hosts ( RO): 230365b3-4916-43bc-8a25-65c000b6937e; a235982c-c51a-4578-82bb-51e8c6d37bed domain-type ( RW): hvm current-domain-type ( RO): hvm HVM-boot-policy ( RW): BIOS order HVM-boot-params (MRW): order: cnd; firmware: uefi 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-f7fa3223-2c100800-00000121-0000000f-009c0fab-00000008-00000000-00001000-bc000400-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-0c000004-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000 last-boot-record ( RO): '' resident-on ( RO): 230365b3-4916-43bc-8a25-65c000b6937e affinity ( RW): <not in database> other-config (MRW): xo:base_delta: 8a757bfb-e932-0284-e955-c3dddd5d1d4d; xo:backup:schedule: one-time; xo:backup:job: 68009e5a-fd8f-481f-94e7-ec11b197a2e3; xo:backup:sr: d47ab4ba-7e64-3ad3-e729-6d15719ca26a; xo:backup:datetime: 20240418T10:00:16Z; xo:backup:vm: 8a757bfb-e932-0284-e955-c3dddd5d1d4d; xo:8a757bfb: {"creation":{"date":"2024-04-18T09:20:43.171Z","template":"1c33af1c-e919-418c-ad45-85d7d6fb604a","user":"00b23cda-6f3e-42a0-ac32-8074336f5363"}}; base_template_name: Windows Server 2022 (64-bit); import_task: OpaqueRef:a775fe45-36e8-435f-8919-21dced27a55a; mac_seed: 154ecbda-6194-7f18-15ed-209815894afa; install-methods: cdrom; xo:copy_of: dc82eb93-fae9-4356-bda2-b71d37dd1440 dom-id ( RO): 21 recommendations ( RO): <restrictions><restriction field="memory-static-max" max="1649267441664"/><restriction field="vcpus-min" min="2"/><restriction field="vcpus-max" max="32"/><restriction field="has-vendor-device" value="true"/><restriction field="allow-network-sriov" value="1"/><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: 268435456; vm-data: ha-always-run ( RW) [DEPRECATED]: false ha-restart-priority ( RW): blobs ( RO): start-time ( RO): 20240418T10:01:09Z install-time ( RO): 19700101T00:00:00Z VCPUs-number ( RO): 6 VCPUs-utilisation (MRO): 0: 0.014; 1: 0.019; 2: 0.012; 3: 0.014; 4: 0.012; 5: 0.010 os-version (MRO): name: Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard|C:\WINDOWS|\Device\Harddisk0\Partition3; distro: windows; major: 10; minor: 0; spmajor: 0; spminor: 0 PV-drivers-version (MRO): PV-drivers-up-to-date ( RO) [DEPRECATED]: true memory (MRO): disks (MRO): VBDs (SRO): 3ff10668-2513-0308-61dc-6cb16eaccd7f networks (MRO): 0/ip: 10.1.3.192; 0/ipv4/0: 10.1.3.192; 0/ipv6/0: fe80:0000:0000:0000:3244:e07f:54d8:e112 PV-drivers-detected ( RO): true other (MRO): platform-feature-xs_reset_watches: 1; platform-feature-multiprocessor-suspend: 1; has-vendor-device: 0; feature-xs-batcmd: 1; feature-wuRebootRequired: 1; feature-updatetime: 1; feature-ts2: 1; feature-ts: 1; data-cant-suspend-reason: {"error":{"class":"GenericError","desc":"State blocked by non-migratable device '0000:00:07.0/nvme'","data":{}},"id":"qmp-000245-21"}; 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@OhSoNoob said in VM's from ESXi, live migration not possible:
data-cant-suspend-reason: {"error":{"class":"GenericError","desc":"State blocked by non-migratable device '0000:00:07.0/nvme'","data":{}},"id":"qmp-000253-22"}
Are you using a PCI passthrough or something in the CTX VM? Because that's the issue here: inside the VM, there's a device that can't be suspended.
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@olivierlambert I am not using any kind of PCI passthrough, but it seems like the storage device for xcp-ng is not using the correct driver.
This is the result of the migrated CTX servers (now using a different server as example, but the result is the same):
With the test server:
however, just changing the storage driver doesn't seem to work. Any experience or tips with this?
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Okay so the Xen PV driver for storage isn't working correctly in the problematic VM, so the storage can't be suspended to do a live migration. That's causing your issue
I don't know why the device isn't working correctly (maybe try to reinstall the tools?), but as soon it does, live migrate should work.
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@olivierlambert The problem with fully installing the tools is our antivirus solution SentinelOne. Simply pausing the agent + reboot gave the XenTools the possibility to install succesfully. After a succesfull installation, enabling the SentinelOne agent again is possible without any other issues regarding the tools or drivers.
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Oh great news then!!!
So now you can live migrate and such, right?
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@olivierlambert Yes! Live migration is now available and working. Which is great!
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Excellent news! Thank you very much for the feedback, it might be helpful for others
Enjoy XCP-ng and XO!
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@OhSoNoob said in VM's from ESXi, live migration not possible:
@olivierlambert The problem with fully installing the tools is our antivirus solution SentinelOne. Simply pausing the agent + reboot gave the XenTools the possibility to install succesfully. After a succesfull installation, enabling the SentinelOne agent again is possible without any other issues regarding the tools or drivers.
Thank you for that find, I was in the same boat.
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Oh wow, I couldn't think it would have been helpful that fast!! I think I might update our documentation page about Windows tools and this issue.
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@olivierlambert said in VM's from ESXi, live migration not possible:
Oh wow, I couldn't think it would have been helpful that fast!! I think I might update our documentation page about Windows tools and this issue.
Yes, take a look at ticket #7723929. There is also something about shrinking a Windows partition using Linux tools and avoid data loss that could be added to the doc.
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@olivierlambert said in VM's from ESXi, live migration not possible:
Done: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/troubleshooting/windows-pv-tools/#not-all-pv-drivers-are-correctly-installed
wow that was fast, thank you!
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@glatour Where would you add this in our doc? (the shrink tip)
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@olivierlambert said in VM's from ESXi, live migration not possible:
@glatour Where would you add this in our doc? (the shrink tip)
There: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/guides/shrink_virtual_drive/ under the Windows VMs part.
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On it!
