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Migration fails

Revision as of 22:06, 2 December 2007 by Vass (talk | contribs) (Reason: formatting fix)

This article contents known reasons of migration failures.

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Problem #1

Symptoms

After giving vzmigrate -v --online <ip address> <veid> the following message appears:

Error: undump failed: Invalid argumentStopping VE ...
Restoring failed:
iptables-restore exited with 1
rst_restore_net: -22

Reason

The VE which you wish to migrate uses some iptables modules, that are not loaded on destination node. Consequently iptables-restore fails.

Workaround

Load all iptables kernel modules that are used by VE on destination node.

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Problem #2

Symptoms

The system runs 028stab031 or older kernels and after giving vzmigrate -v --online <ip address> <veid> the following message appears:

Live migrating VE
    Suspending VE
Setting up checkpoint...
        suspend...
Can not suspend VE: Device or resource busy
file on unsupported FS: magic 0bad1dea
Checkpointing failed
Error:  Failed to suspend VE

Reason

The VE which you wish to migrate uses inotify mechanism (magic 0bad1dea), that is not supported by 028stab031 and older kernels.

Workaround

  • for 2.6.18 rhel5 based kernels: Update till 028stab035 or newer kernel
  • for 2.6.18 mainstream based kernels: Update till 028stab043 or newer kernel

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Problem #3

Symptoms

After giving vzmigrate -v --online <ip address> <veid> the following message appears:

Dumping VE
Setting up checkpoint...
        join context..
        dump...
Can not dump VE: Device or resource busy
unsupported netdevice tun0
Checkpointing failed
Error:  Failed to dump VE

Reason

Checkpointing doesn't support tun device inside VE till 2.6.18-028stab049 and 2.6.9-023stab044.14 kernels. This device is usually used for VPN via the TUN/TAP device in VE.

Workaround

Just use 2.6.18-028stab049 or 2.6.9-023stab044.14 (and later) OpenVZ kernels.

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