[libvirt-users] Error while starting the node on ESXi hypervisor

varun bhatnagar varun292006 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 12 16:45:20 UTC 2013


Hi,

Today I was trying to start a node using libvirt on ESX (esxi-5.1)
hypervisor and I got the following error message:

*virsh # define /local/myNode/esxdomain.xml*
*Domain testNode defined from /local/myNode/esxdomain.xml*
*virsh # start testNode*
*error: Failed to start domain testNode*
*error: internal error: Could not start domain: GenericVmConfigFault -
Cannot open the disk
/vmfs/volues/5208f99d-760cf4a2-000c29520788/testNode.vmdk or one of the
snapshot disks it depends on.*
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I checked the datastore of my ESX server and found out that instead of file
one directory is getting created with the name* cluster.vmdk *and inside it
there are few more files but cluster.vmdk file is not there.
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/vmfs/volumes # cd datastore1
 /vmfs/volues/5208f99d-760cf4a2-000c29520788 # ls
cluster.vmdk
 /vmfs/volues/5208f99d-760cf4a2-000c29520788 # cd cluster.vmdk
 /vmfs/volues/5208f99d-760cf4a2-000c29520788/cluster.vmdk # ls -ltr
*-rw-r--r--   1  root    root   261 Aug 12 17:30 cluster.vmdk*
*-rw-r--r--   1  root    root   674 Aug 12 17:30 cluster.vmx*
*-rw-r--r--   1  root    root   0 Aug 12 17:30 cluster.vmsd*
 /vmfs/volues/5208f99d-760cf4a2-000c29520788/cluster.vmdk #

Can anyone tell me how to start a node and why I am getting that error
message.
Below is my xml file.

*<domain type='vmware'>*
*  <name>testNode</name>*
*  <uuid>50115e16-9bdc-49d7-f171-53c4d7f91710</uuid>*
*  <memory>1048576</memory>*
*  <currentMemory>1048576</currentMemory>*
*  <vcpu>1</vcpu>*
*  <os>*
*    <type arch='x86_64'>hvm</type>*
*  </os>*
*  <devices>*
*    <disk type='file' device='disk'>*
*      <source file='[datastore1] cluster.vmdk'/>*
*      <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>*
*      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='0'/>*
*    </disk>*
*    <controller type='scsi' index='0'/>*
*    <interface type='bridge'>*
*      <mac address='00:50:56:25:48:c7'/>*
*      <source bridge='VM Network'/>*
*    </interface>*
*  </devices>*
*</domain>*
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