Kindly look below feature request. Almost all functions in OpenNebula and sunstone are good and am satisfied with it. But am facing some difficulties with absents of below features . I think it most important function for every cloud services .
1 . VM Backup .
There is no option to backup a running VM in current OpenNebula . This is much needed one. Or there is no option for VM export in “qcow2” or “raw” formats …etc .
2 . VM Disk resize
I can able to resize VM Memory , but not able to resize stopped VM disk size . If i need to increase VM space i need to add another disk to that VM . Is there any option to resize vm base storage like vmware and xen ?
3 . VM live migration including snapshots .
I am able to live migrate VM without any snapshot attached on it . But when i took snapshot and went for live migration server is giving error. migrate: Command "virsh --connect qemu:///system migrate --live one-9 qemu+ssh://node2.cloud.ae/system" failed: error: Requested operation is not valid: cannot migrate domain with 1 snapshots
Is this is a bug with QEMU or Opennebula?
Kindly look below feature request. Almost all functions in OpenNebula and
sunstone are good and am satisfied with it. But am facing some difficulties
with absents of below features . I think it most important function for
every cloud services .
Thanks for the feedback!
1 . VM Backup .
There is no option to backup a running VM in current OpenNebula . This is
much needed one. Or there is no option for VM export in “qcow2” or “raw”
formats …etc .
In 4.x releases this can be done per disk-wise with the disk-saveas option,
there is also a VM saveas option that clones the template and disk images
(basically iterates over the disks doing a disk-saveas, creates a new
template and points to the disk copies). In 5.0 we have included a
instantiate to persistent action that will create a fresh private
persistent copy of the template. I am not sure if you are aware about this
features, or they are not enough to implement your use case.
2 . VM Disk resize
I can able to resize VM Memory , but not able to resize stopped VM disk
size . If i need to increase VM space i need to add another disk to that VM
. Can we able to resize vm base storage like vmware and xen ?
You are right disk size can only be set at deployment time. Mainly a hot
resize of a disk also requires work from the VM mainly to resize the FS in
the disk (which may or may not support resizing). At boot time there is an
autogrow-fs feature that can be used.
Also you can always attach clean disks to the VM to increase storage. Again
this needs work from the VM (e.g. add the new disk to a VG to extend a
logical volumen and the FS within)
3 . VM live migration including snapshots .
I am able to live migrate VM without any snapshot attached on it . But
when i took snapshot and went for live migration server is giving error.
migrate: Command “virsh --connect
qemu:///system migrate --live one-9 qemu+ssh://node2.cloud.ae/system”
failed: error: Requested operation is not valid: cannot migrate domain
with 1 snapshots
Is this bug?
There is a limitation on current versions of libvirt to preserve system
snapshots while live-migrating the VM. We have an issue for this and
possible work-arounds…
What i am trying to tell you is , if my KVM host failed or got crashed i can use these exported image .
I am not a big fan of Proxmox but they done this job perfectly .
2 ) As default qemu-guest-agent is not supported by Opennebula . VM export is only works when vm is on pause/ shutdown state . If i turned off the machine it is not controlled by qemu and not listing under , virsh list
So virt-clone --connect=qemu:///system -o one-93 -n NewVM -f /opt/NewVM.qcow2
above command will not work.
So by default KVM/Qemu supports offline export but not under Opennebula .
Please give a solution for this .
I just bump in to this forum a while ago, and i think would be nice if we can do SaveAs a Storage to a new location on the data store with entered filename like Backup_master.qcow2 instead of /var/lib/one//datastores/102/bcfa05b1b2738a1f5e380c77269d0155 or something like backup and downloaded to some location on the pc.
