Description of problem: Difference seen between VMM and a VM console. The attached screenshots show I do not see /dev/xvdb at the VM console but I do see it at the VMM console. Only seen with a fully-virtualized RH5.3 VM. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 5.3 snapshot 5 How reproducible: unknown Steps to Reproduce: 1. add a new virtual disk 2. fdisk -l doesn't see it 3. VMM does Actual results: Missing storage from console Expected results: I should see the new /dev/xvdb after an fdisk -l Additional info: I was trying to catagorize this issue when I stumbled upon Bug 476902. Since it was a different issue I logged it as a separate bug. I did not see this with a para-virtualized RH5.3 VM or a second fully-virtualized RH5.3 VM.
Created attachment 327287 [details] adding attachment adding attachment that didn't make it in the initial listing
Some issues with block attach/detach were fixed in snapshot fix. Can you please retest with that and report back?
Created attachment 327470 [details] snapshot 6 vm console doesn't see new storage added
Created attachment 327471 [details] hardware details sees new storage with snapshot 6 HP has a mandatory shutdown for two weeks so I cannot provide any additional help. That and 12' of snow is about to hit the area. Sorry.
Jim, Can you give more details about what you saw here? I think you tried to block-attach a new disk to a FV guest. Is that the case? Can you give me detailed steps of what exactly you did? Also, what do you mean by "VMM"? Note that block-attach will only work for FV guests iff you are running the PV-on-HVM drivers inside the guest, so that might explain the difference between your two FV guests. Chris Lalancette
Chris, If I recall, I added a LUN by the lvcreate command carving up an existing volume group in that VM. At this point I should have seen /dev/xvdb show up with fdisk -l but didn't I was able to see xvdb show up on the Virtual Machine Display (an attachment) so the VMM/Virtual Machine Manager display presentation. (I always use the GUI and not the command line). To me the GUI/Virtual Machine Display for that VM showed the new storage but fdisk didn't. I also have to say I don't recall seeing this issue since snapshot 6 two months ago but I also haven't focused that much on FV VMs either. jim
I strongly suspect that Jim wasn't using PV-on-HVM drivers. Since there has been no activity since February 2009 I'm closing this bug. Jim, feel free to reopen if you still see this bug. In this case, please make sure to attach an sosreport of both the host and the guest. Thanks!