[PCA 2.x / OVM] Live migration Fails with "XendError: Timeout waiting for domain XX to suspend" (Doc ID 2344906.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 08, 2025

Applies to:

Symptoms

On Private Cloud Appliance and Oracle VM, when attempting to live migrate a Virtual Machine, the following error is being reported in the /var/log/xen/xend.log of the compute node from which the migration is initiated :

2017-12-18 00:58:18 1943] ERROR (XendCheckpoint:192) Save failed on domain 0004fb000006000098be1e03a99152e6 (22) - resuming.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendCheckpoint.py", line 160, in saveforkHelper(cmd, fd, saveInputHandler, False)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendCheckpoint.py", line 402, in forkHelperinputHandler(line, child.tochild)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendCheckpoint.py", line 145, in saveInputHandlerdominfo.waitForSuspend()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 3181, in waitForSuspend 
raise XendError(msg)
XendError: Timeout waiting for domain 22 to suspend
[2017-12-18 00:58:18 1943] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:3325) XendDomainInfo.resumeDomain(22)
[2017-12-18 00:58:21 1943] ERROR (xmlrpclib2:181) Internal error handling xend.domain.migrate
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/util/xmlrpclib2.py", line 134, in _marshaled_dispatch
response = self._dispatch(method, params)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py", line 418, in _dispatch 
return func(*params)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py", line 1387, in domain_migrate
self._domain_migrate(dominfo, dst, live, port, node, vmfiles)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py", line 1479, in _domain_migrate
dsterr = sock.recv(1024) timeout: timed out 

Cause

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