Help. VM dont start after copy to deffrent disk

[Rafal Kaska]

Hi.
I have big problem.
I was copying the virtual machine and the server restarted unexpectedly. Now this machine does not start. He stops on the message : hard disk failure - disk not bootable

How would you solve the above problem?

[Tobias Kreidl]

I hope you have a backup of your VMs ... it sounds like what it says, namely that there was a hardware failure. When you reboot your server, see if it comes up at all into single user mode and if so, if a storage repair option (fsck) shows up. If it does not boot at all, your system is likely corrupted and the storage will have to be replaced. If it's just the OS and you have metadata backed up onto external SRs, you can likely recover by rebuilding the OS and re-attaching the external storage. If your boot disk is RAID, you should still have been able to boot from the redundant component, but it appears as if you don't have that option.

 

-=Tobias

[Rafal Kaska]

I do not think it's a hardware failure.
SMARTctl not show errors

 

[Tobias Kreidl]

Sorry, I thought you meant your server won't start, not just the VM.

 

Have you tried a simple reboot of the server? Or starting the VM on a different server, if in a pool?

Or try to do a power reset on the VM:

xe vm-reset-powerstate uuid=<UUID of VM> force=true

and see if that helps.

 

-=Tobias

[Rafal Kaska]

yes i rebooted server
xe vm-reset-powerstate uuid don't work.
I also made a full copy for another drive - and it doesn't work

 

[Tobias Kreidl]

Alas, the VM might have become corrupted. I hope you have a recent backup you can try to start.

 

-=Tobias

[Rafal Kaska]

yes, a have a copy databse :) from friday

[Alan Lantz]

Interruption during copies/migrations is a good way to end up with corruption.

XenServer just isn't written to handle that very well.

 

--Alan--