Description of problem: User cannot change the comment of a running VM. Occurs in our environment if VM type is Windows and console is spice. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.4.2 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Define VM 2. Start VM 3. Open VM config dialogue 4. Change comment (NOTHING ELSE!) 5. Press save Actual results: Error message: There was an attempt to change VM values while the VM is not down. Please shut down the VM in order to modify these properties. Expected results: Comment should be changeable Additional info: Works on Linux/VNC VMs perfectly.
Maybe important info: Our Windows VMs have customer specific flags set. BUT: We do not modify those values when we change the comment.
Test revealed: If custom properties are set (in our case self defined fields) the comment can no longer be changed on a running VM.
This bug is the cause of bz #1111565 In Add/Edit VM the qxl flag is setting to true in when we have spice and Linux - we need to set it only on Add VM not in edit (which cause this bug) Closing this bug, fixing this issue in bz #1111565 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1111565 ***
Sorry no duplicate. Nevertheless it is the same problem as in BZ1111565. Custom properties fields are not correctly handled when changing the running VM. This is the engine log: 2014-07-01 15:38:45,322 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.UpdateVmCommand] (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-7) [4f41f5ce] Lock Acquired to object EngineLock [exclusiveLocks= key: colvm36 value: VM_NAME , sharedLocks= ] 2014-07-01 15:38:45,331 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.utils.ObjectIdentityChecker] (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-7) [4f41f5ce] Field customProperties can not be updated when status is Up 2014-07-01 15:38:45,333 WARN [org.ovirt.engine.core.utils.ObjectIdentityChecker] (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-7) [4f41f5ce] ObjectIdentityChecker.IsUpdateValid:: Not updatable field 'customProperties' was updated 2014-07-01 15:38:45,335 WARN [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.UpdateVmCommand] (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-7) [4f41f5ce] CanDoAction of action UpdateVm failed. Reasons:VAR__ACTION__UPDATE,VAR__TYPE__VM,VM_CANNOT_UPDATE_ILLEGAL_FIELD 2014-07-01 15:38:45,338 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.UpdateVmCommand] (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-7) [4f41f5ce] Lock freed to object EngineLock [exclusiveLocks= key: colvm36 value: VM_NAME , sharedLocks= ] 2014-07-01 15:39:25,281 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.UpdateVmCommand] (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-3) [15dbbb94] Lock Acquired to object EngineLock [exclusiveLocks= key: colvm36 value: VM_NAME , sharedLocks= ] 2014-07-01 15:39:25,296 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.utils.ObjectIdentityChecker] (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-3) [15dbbb94] Field customProperties can not be updated when status is Up 2014-07-01 15:39:25,311 WARN [org.ovirt.engine.core.utils.ObjectIdentityChecker] (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-3) [15dbbb94] ObjectIdentityChecker.IsUpdateValid:: Not updatable field 'customProperties' was updated 2014-07-01 15:39:25,328 WARN [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.UpdateVmCommand] (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-3) [15dbbb94] CanDoAction of action UpdateVm failed. Reasons:VAR__ACTION__UPDATE,VAR__TYPE__VM,VM_CANNOT_UPDATE_ILLEGAL_FIELD 2014-07-01 15:39:25,340 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.UpdateVmCommand] (ajp--127.0.0.1-8702-3) [15dbbb94] Lock freed to object EngineLock [exclusiveLocks= key: colvm36 value: VM_NAME , sharedLocks= ]
What are the custom properties that you are using? I cannot reproduce this error when I set arbitrary custom properties.
[root@node ~]# engine-config -a | grep UserDe UserDefinedVMProperties: version: 3.0 UserDefinedVMProperties: version: 3.1 UserDefinedVMProperties: version: 3.2 UserDefinedVMProperties: version: 3.3 UserDefinedVMProperties: clock=^VM$;relax=^ON$; version: 3.4
We have defined those flags to enable hv_relax option for Windows based VMs. This option might be obsolete in 3.5. Nevertheless I expect that custom properties do not block changing a comment on a running VM.
The error occurs as soon as a VM has at least one of the two flags set.
Markus, I assume that the same configuration (Windows+Spice) without any custom properties is working?
You are right. I just verified it once again. Online comment change fails if: VM (Windows XP) with SPICE console WITH custom property "clock=VM" Online comment change succeeds if: VM (Windows XP) with SPICE console WITHOUT any custom property Logs still show the same content as in comment 4.
And to make it even more clear I changed the console type to VNC. The error behaviour ist the same. VM properties attached (of the error case). [oVirt shell (connected)]# show vm col... id : 803870d2-e365-4ab4-bdcc-4c1d25a03944 name : col... description : Some description cluster-id : 99408929-82cf-4dc7-a532-9d998063fa95 comment : Some comment cpu-architecture : X86_64 cpu-topology-cores : 1 cpu-topology-sockets : 1 cpu_shares : 0 creation_time : 2014-06-03 16:46:26.596000+02:00 custom_properties-custom_property-name : clock custom_properties-custom_property-value: VM delete_protected : False display-address : 192.168.11.42 display-allow_override : True display-keyboard_layout : de display-monitors : 1 display-port : 5900 display-single_qxl_pci : False display-smartcard_enabled : False display-type : vnc guest_info-fqdn : col....de guest_info-ips-ip-address : 192.168.9.136 guest_info-ips-ip-address : 192.168.9.136 guest_info-ips-ip-address : 192.168.9.136 high_availability-enabled : False high_availability-priority : 1 host-id : 75048c1a-d33c-4257-bfb2-deebe009bd60 memory : 3221225472 memory_policy-guaranteed : 2147483648 migration_downtime : -1 origin : rhev os-boot-dev : hd os-type : windows_xp placement_policy-affinity : migratable placement_policy-host-id : 75048c1a-d33c-4257-bfb2-deebe009bd60 sso-methods-method-id : GUEST_AGENT start_time : 2014-07-10 12:11:17.138000+02:00 stateless : False status-state : up stop_time : 2014-07-10 12:10:46.302000+02:00
Verified on oVirt Engine Version: 3.5.0-0.0.master.20140804172041.git23b558e.el6
oVirt 3.5 has been released and should include the fix for this issue.