Oracle VM: Live Migration between Oracle VM server version 3.4.1 to 3.4.4 Fail With 'ERROR (XendDomain:1195) Restore failed' (Doc ID 2473807.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 19, 2021

Applies to:

Symptoms

On : 3.4.4 version, Dom0, HostOS, Management Domain

Doing upgradation of OVM environment from version 3.4.1 to 3.4.4 and doing rolling upgrade. During upgrade the live migration of the VM guests from from OVM Server with version 3.4.1 to OVM Server with version 3.4.4 may fail and OVM Manager reports below error.

OVMAPI_6000E Internal Error: OVMAPI_5029E Job: 1521025927217/Migrate VM: vmguest1 to Server: server2/Migrate VM: vmguest1 to Server: server2, failed. Job Failure Event: 1521026215300/Job Failed to Complete/Due to Event vm.error.migration. summary: Virtual Machine Migrate Failed.

Live migration between Oracle VM Server version 3.4.1 to 3.4.4 may fail with below error in the xend.log.

ERROR (XendCheckpoint:364) /usr/lib64/xen/bin/xc_restore 5 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 failed

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendCheckpoint.py", line 316, in restore

forkHelper(cmd, fd, handler.handler, True)

File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendCheckpoint.py", line 418, in forkHelper

raise XendError("%s failed" % string.join(cmd))

XendError: /usr/lib64/xen/bin/xc_restore 5 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 failed

ERROR (XendDomain:1195) Restore failed

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py", line 1179, in domain_restore_fd

dominfo = XendCheckpoint.restore(self, fd, paused=paused, relocating=relocating)

File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendCheckpoint.py", line 365, in restore

raise exn

XendError: /usr/lib64/xen/bin/xc_restore 5 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 failed

Changes

It was a rolling upgrade

Cause

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