# Unable to deploy/instantiate LXD app/ Linux vm

**URL:** <https://forum.opennebula.io/t/unable-to-deploy-instantiate-lxd-app-linux-vm/8392>\
**Category:** Installation & Configuration\
**Created:** [May 1, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/unable-to-deploy-instantiate-lxd-app-linux-vm/8392 "2020-05-01T13:37:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![sandude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sandude](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/sandude)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/unable-to-deploy-instantiate-lxd-app-linux-vm/8392/21 "2020-05-05T17:35:33Z")

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> [@dclavijo](#):
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> Can you please show the output of `grep DATASTORE_LOCATION /etc/one/oned.conf` and `onedatastore show -x <system_datastore_id>` of the system datastore being used for the containers ?

From front-end :

> oneadmin@nebula0:~$ onedatastore show -x 0  
>   
> 0  
> 0  
> 0  
> oneadmin  
> oneadmin  
> system  
>   
> \<OWNER\_U\>1\</OWNER\_U\>  
> \<OWNER\_M\>1\</OWNER\_M\>  
> \<OWNER\_A\>0\</OWNER\_A\>  
> \<GROUP\_U\>1\</GROUP\_U\>  
> \<GROUP\_M\>0\</GROUP\_M\>  
> \<GROUP\_A\>0\</GROUP\_A\>  
> \<OTHER\_U\>0\</OTHER\_U\>  
> \<OTHER\_M\>0\</OTHER\_M\>  
> \<OTHER\_A\>0\</OTHER\_A\>  
>   
> \<DS\_MAD\>\</DS\_MAD\>  
> \<TM\_MAD\>\</TM\_MAD\>  
> \<BASE\_PATH\>\</BASE\_PATH\>  
> 1  
> \<DISK\_TYPE\>0\</DISK\_TYPE\>  
> 0  
>   
> 0  
>   
> \<TOTAL\_MB\>0\</TOTAL\_MB\>  
> \<FREE\_MB\>0\</FREE\_MB\>  
> \<USED\_MB\>0\</USED\_MB\>  
>   
>   
> \<ALLOW\_ORPHANS\>\</ALLOW\_ORPHANS\>  
> \<DISK\_TYPE\>\</DISK\_TYPE\>  
> \<DS\_MIGRATE\>\</DS\_MIGRATE\>  
> \<RESTRICTED\_DIRS\>\</RESTRICTED\_DIRS\>  
> \<SAFE\_DIRS\>\</SAFE\_DIRS\>  
>   
> \<TM\_MAD\>\</TM\_MAD\>  
>   
>   
>   
> oneadmin@nebula0:~$ onedatastore show -x 1  
>   
> 1  
> 0  
> 0  
> oneadmin  
> oneadmin  
> default  
>   
> \<OWNER\_U\>1\</OWNER\_U\>  
> \<OWNER\_M\>1\</OWNER\_M\>  
> \<OWNER\_A\>0\</OWNER\_A\>  
> \<GROUP\_U\>1\</GROUP\_U\>  
> \<GROUP\_M\>0\</GROUP\_M\>  
> \<GROUP\_A\>0\</GROUP\_A\>  
> \<OTHER\_U\>0\</OTHER\_U\>  
> \<OTHER\_M\>0\</OTHER\_M\>  
> \<OTHER\_A\>0\</OTHER\_A\>  
>   
> \<DS\_MAD\>\</DS\_MAD\>  
> \<TM\_MAD\>\</TM\_MAD\>  
> \<BASE\_PATH\>\</BASE\_PATH\>  
> 0  
> \<DISK\_TYPE\>0\</DISK\_TYPE\>  
> 0  
>   
> 0  
>   
> \<TOTAL\_MB\>100278\</TOTAL\_MB\>  
> \<FREE\_MB\>90738\</FREE\_MB\>  
> \<USED\_MB\>4405\</USED\_MB\>  
>   
>   
> \<ALLOW\_ORPHANS\>\</ALLOW\_ORPHANS\>  
> \<CLONE\_TARGET\>\</CLONE\_TARGET\>  
> \<DISK\_TYPE\>\</DISK\_TYPE\>  
> \<DS\_MAD\>\</DS\_MAD\>  
> \<LN\_TARGET\>\</LN\_TARGET\>  
> \<RESTRICTED\_DIRS\>\</RESTRICTED\_DIRS\>  
> \<SAFE\_DIRS\>\</SAFE\_DIRS\>  
> \<TM\_MAD\>\</TM\_MAD\>  
>   
>   
>   
> oneadmin@nebula0:~$ onedatastore show -x 2  
>   
> 2  
> 0  
> 0  
> oneadmin  
> oneadmin  
> files  
>   
> \<OWNER\_U\>1\</OWNER\_U\>  
> \<OWNER\_M\>1\</OWNER\_M\>  
> \<OWNER\_A\>0\</OWNER\_A\>  
> \<GROUP\_U\>1\</GROUP\_U\>  
> \<GROUP\_M\>0\</GROUP\_M\>  
> \<GROUP\_A\>0\</GROUP\_A\>  
> \<OTHER\_U\>0\</OTHER\_U\>  
> \<OTHER\_M\>0\</OTHER\_M\>  
> \<OTHER\_A\>0\</OTHER\_A\>  
>   
> \<DS\_MAD\>\</DS\_MAD\>  
> \<TM\_MAD\>\</TM\_MAD\>  
> \<BASE\_PATH\>\</BASE\_PATH\>  
> 2  
> \<DISK\_TYPE\>0\</DISK\_TYPE\>  
> 0  
>   
> 0  
>   
> \<TOTAL\_MB\>100278\</TOTAL\_MB\>  
> \<FREE\_MB\>90738\</FREE\_MB\>  
> \<USED\_MB\>4405\</USED\_MB\>  
>   
>   
> \<ALLOW\_ORPHANS\>\</ALLOW\_ORPHANS\>  
> \<CLONE\_TARGET\>\</CLONE\_TARGET\>  
> \<DS\_MAD\>\</DS\_MAD\>  
> \<LN\_TARGET\>\</LN\_TARGET\>  
> \<RESTRICTED\_DIRS\>\</RESTRICTED\_DIRS\>  
> \<SAFE\_DIRS\>\</SAFE\_DIRS\>  
> \<TM\_MAD\>\</TM\_MAD\>  
>   
>   
>   
> oneadmin@nebula0:~$

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**Author:** ![sandude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sandude](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/sandude)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/unable-to-deploy-instantiate-lxd-app-linux-vm/8392/22 "2020-05-05T18:06:44Z")

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First worker node on Ubuntu 18.04:

> oneadmin@nebula1:~$ lxd --version  
> 3.0.3  
> oneadmin@nebula1:~$

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**Author:** ![sandude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sandude](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/sandude)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/unable-to-deploy-instantiate-lxd-app-linux-vm/8392/23 "2020-05-05T18:15:03Z")

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Breakthrough! With LXD worker node on 18.04, and a bog standard install, i can instantiate a VM  
Debian Buster deployed fine this time

> Tue May 5 18:10:52 2020 [Z0][VM][I]: New state is ACTIVE  
> Tue May 5 18:10:52 2020 [Z0][VM][I]: New LCM state is PROLOG  
> Tue May 5 18:12:37 2020 [Z0][VM][I]: New LCM state is BOOT  
> Tue May 5 18:12:37 2020 [Z0][VMM][I]: Generating deployment file: /var/lib/one/vms/0/deployment.0  
> Tue May 5 18:12:40 2020 [Z0][VMM][I]: Successfully execute transfer manager driver operation: tm\_context.  
> Tue May 5 18:12:40 2020 [Z0][VMM][I]: Successfully execute network driver operation: pre.  
> Tue May 5 18:12:47 2020 [Z0][VMM][I]: deploy: Processing disk 0  
> Tue May 5 18:12:47 2020 [Z0][VMM][I]: deploy: Using raw filesystem mapper for /var/lib/one/datastores/0/0/disk.0  
> Tue May 5 18:12:47 2020 [Z0][VMM][I]: deploy: Mapping disk at /var/lib/lxd/storage-pools/default/containers/one-0/rootfs using device /dev/loop1  
> Tue May 5 18:12:47 2020 [Z0][VMM][I]: deploy: Resizing filesystem ext4 on /dev/loop1  
> Tue May 5 18:12:47 2020 [Z0][VMM][I]: deploy: Mounting /dev/loop1 at /var/lib/lxd/storage-pools/default/containers/one-0/rootfs  
> Tue May 5 18:12:47 2020 [Z0][VMM][I]: deploy: Mapping disk at /var/lib/one/datastores/0/0/mapper/disk.1 using device /dev/loop2  
> Tue May 5 18:12:47 2020 [Z0][VMM][I]: deploy: Mounting /dev/loop2 at /var/lib/one/datastores/0/0/mapper/disk.1  
> Tue May 5 18:12:47 2020 [Z0][VMM][I]: deploy: — Starting container —  
> Tue May 5 18:12:47 2020 [Z0][VMM][I]: ExitCode: 0  
> Tue May 5 18:12:47 2020 [Z0][VMM][I]: Successfully execute virtualization driver operation: deploy.  
> Tue May 5 18:12:47 2020 [Z0][VMM][I]: Successfully execute network driver operation: post.  
> Tue May 5 18:12:47 2020 [Z0][VM][I]: New LCM state is RUNNING

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**Author:** ![dclavijo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/dclavijo/32/5265_2.png) [@dclavijo](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/dclavijo)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/unable-to-deploy-instantiate-lxd-app-linux-vm/8392/24 "2020-05-05T18:29:58Z")

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Glad you made it work, now you can try to make fancy NFS setups, it shouldn’t be a problem with the right LXD version.

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**Author:** ![sandude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sandude](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/sandude)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/unable-to-deploy-instantiate-lxd-app-linux-vm/8392/25 "2020-05-05T19:09:43Z")

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If only i can get basic vm networking working… not working yet. I lost all contact to my lxd worker node in the middle of it. I have to say the documentation for bridge networking is NOT great.  
And, contextualization with ssh keys… very confusing still but that might be because no networking is working

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**Author:** ![sandude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sandude](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/sandude)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/unable-to-deploy-instantiate-lxd-app-linux-vm/8392/26 "2020-05-05T19:14:20Z")

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Here is my lxd worker node.

> oneadmin@nebula1:~$ ip link show  
> 1: lo: \<LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER\_UP\> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000  
> link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00  
> 2: enp1s0: \<BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER\_UP\> mtu 1500 qdisc fq\_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000  
> link/ether f0:76:1c:8f:43:3d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  
> 3: wlp2s0: \<BROADCAST,MULTICAST\> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000  
> link/ether 4c:bb:58:8e:77:85 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  
> 4: virbr0: \<NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP\> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000  
> link/ether 52:54:00:78:65:fa brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  
> 5: virbr0-nic: \<BROADCAST,MULTICAST\> mtu 1500 qdisc fq\_codel master virbr0 state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000  
> link/ether 52:54:00:78:65:fa brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

and

> oneadmin@nebula1:~$ ip ad  
> 1: lo: \<LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER\_UP\> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000  
> link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00  
> inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo  
> valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever  
> inet6 ::1/128 scope host  
> valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever  
> 2: enp1s0: \<BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER\_UP\> mtu 1500 qdisc fq\_codel state UP group default qlen 1000  
> link/ether f0:76:1c:8f:43:3d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  
> inet 192.168.254.181/24 brd 192.168.254.255 scope global enp1s0  
> valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever  
> inet6 fe80::f276:1cff:fe8f:433d/64 scope link  
> valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever  
> 3: wlp2s0: \<BROADCAST,MULTICAST\> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000  
> link/ether 4c:bb:58:8e:77:85 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  
> 4: virbr0: \<NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP\> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default qlen 1000  
> link/ether 52:54:00:78:65:fa brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  
> inet 192.168.122.1/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global virbr0  
> valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever  
> 5: virbr0-nic: \<BROADCAST,MULTICAST\> mtu 1500 qdisc fq\_codel master virbr0 state DOWN group default qlen 1000  
> link/ether 52:54:00:78:65:fa brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

I want my lxd machines to get **bridged** on the lab network with the range 192.168.254.190-195  
Which of these names/nics to use where in the Create Bridge window?

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**Author:** ![nibatandukar](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/nibatandukar/32/6931_2.png) [@nibatandukar](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/nibatandukar)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 10:55am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/unable-to-deploy-instantiate-lxd-app-linux-vm/8392/27 "2021-04-20T10:55:51Z")

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@sandude Can you guide me. I have got the same issue. Is this the issue of the lxd version? I have setup my frontend and lxd node in ubuntu 20.04 VM. and the lxd version is 4.0.5.

Tue Apr 20 08:31:21 2021 [Z0][VM][I]: New state is ACTIVE  
Tue Apr 20 08:31:24 2021 [Z0][VM][I]: New LCM state is PROLOG  
Tue Apr 20 08:33:13 2021 [Z0][VM][I]: New LCM state is BOOT  
Tue Apr 20 08:33:15 2021 [Z0][VMM][I]: Generating deployment file: /var/lib/one/vms/36/deployment.0  
Tue Apr 20 08:33:23 2021 [Z0][VMM][I]: Successfully execute transfer manager driver operation: tm\_context.  
Tue Apr 20 08:33:23 2021 [Z0][VMM][I]: Successfully execute network driver operation: pre.  
Tue Apr 20 08:33:27 2021 [Z0][VMM][I]: Command execution fail: cat \<\< EOT | /var/tmp/one/vmm/lxd/deploy ‘/var/lib/one//datastores/0/36/deployment.0’ ‘51.81.168.228’ 36 51.81.168.228  
Tue Apr 20 08:33:27 2021 [Z0][VMM][E]: deploy: Error: not found  
Tue Apr 20 08:33:27 2021 [Z0][VMM][I]: /var/tmp/one/vmm/lxd/client.rb:102:in `wait': {"type"=>"sync", "status"=>"Success", "status_code"=>200, "operation"=>"", "error_code"=>0, "error"=>"", "metadata"=>{"id"=>"e19bc666-c06d-4a71-9755-96dbc51820ef", "class"=>"task", "description"=>"Creating instance", "created_at"=>"2021-04-20T07:33:26.651766729Z", "updated_at"=>"2021-04-20T07:33:26.651766729Z", "status"=>"Failure", "status_code"=>400, "resources"=>{"containers"=>["/1.0/containers/one-36"], "instances"=>["/1.0/instances/one-36"]}, "metadata"=>nil, "may_cancel"=>false, "err"=>"Failed creating instance record: Failed initialising instance: Failed to add device \\"context\\": Missing source path \\"/var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/mapper/disk.1\\" for disk \\"context\\"", "location"=>"none"}} (LXDError) Tue Apr 20 08:33:27 2021 [Z0][VMM][I]: from /var/tmp/one/vmm/lxd/container.rb:517:in `wait?’  
Tue Apr 20 08:33:27 2021 [Z0][VMM][I]: from /var/tmp/one/vmm/lxd/container.rb:135:in `create' Tue Apr 20 08:33:27 2021 [Z0][VMM][I]: from /var/tmp/one/vmm/lxd/deploy:52:in `’  
Tue Apr 20 08:33:27 2021 [Z0][VMM][I]: ExitCode: 1  
Tue Apr 20 08:33:27 2021 [Z0][VMM][I]: Successfully execute network driver operation: clean.  
Tue Apr 20 08:33:27 2021 [Z0][VMM][I]: Failed to execute virtualization driver operation: deploy.  
Tue Apr 20 08:33:27 2021 [Z0][VMM][E]: Error deploying virtual machine  
Tue Apr 20 08:33:27 2021 [Z0][VM][I]: New LCM state is BOOT\_FAILURE  
Tue Apr 20 09:32:02 2021 [Z0][VM][I]: New LCM state is CLEANUP\_DELETE  
Tue Apr 20 09:32:03 2021 [Z0][VM][I]: New state is DONE  
Tue Apr 20 09:32:03 2021 [Z0][VM][I]: New LCM state is LCM\_INIT

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**Author:** ![dclavijo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/dclavijo/32/5265_2.png) [@dclavijo](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/dclavijo)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/unable-to-deploy-instantiate-lxd-app-linux-vm/8392/28 "2021-04-20T14:54:55Z")

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you need to use the lxd 3.0.x version

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**Author:** ![nibatandukar](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/nibatandukar/32/6931_2.png) [@nibatandukar](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/nibatandukar)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/unable-to-deploy-instantiate-lxd-app-linux-vm/8392/29 "2021-04-21T18:18:13Z")

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Thank you @dclavijo . It worked as I have used ubuntu 16.04 for the frontend and ubuntu 18.04 for the LXD node.

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