Techizare Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Hi, I am trying to add an unassigned device as a pool device (to function as cache for my existing array). I shut down my Windows VM, stop the array, and add the device as a pool device, then start the array, my Windows VM is no longer listed (and an old Linux VM appears). When I was initially trying to setup my VM I had issues with it crashing etc. so I made multiple attempts (potentially some past VMs used the same name)... I need the Windows VM running, so I shut the array down, unassigned the cache device, started the array back up and the old VM is no longer listed, and my Windows one shows up. I have tried searching for similar issues in past forums, but I still don't understand the issue (or the solution). Past threads talk about /mnt/disk1/system/libvirt/libvirt.img. Help will be appreciated! Quote Link to comment
Techizare Posted July 18 Author Share Posted July 18 Hi JorgeB, attached. pixel-diagnostics-20240718-1948.zip Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 18 Share Posted July 18 I don't see anything wrong with the libvirt image, post the output of: ls -lh /etc/libvirt/qemu Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 18 Share Posted July 18 Now post new diags and the same output with the cache device unassigned. Quote Link to comment
Techizare Posted July 20 Author Share Posted July 20 (edited) Thank you for your help so far Jorge, I have done as you asked, the list it produced on that commands looks to be a different (old) list of files... pixel-diagnostics-20240720-1306.zip Edited July 20 by Techizare Quote Link to comment
Techizare Posted July 20 Author Share Posted July 20 Beer money has been sent in advance. Quote Link to comment
Solution JorgeB Posted July 20 Solution Share Posted July 20 There are two libvirt images, one on cache and one on disk1, see witch one is the correct/better one and delete the other. Thanks for the beer money! Quote Link to comment
Techizare Posted July 20 Author Share Posted July 20 (edited) The one on the cache drive is wrong - would it be best to format the cache disk or delete the file? (I don't even know how to go about deleting that image). I have an m.2 pool device that I had intended to be used for VMs - out of curiosity, in terms of performance, would this be a better place to store the image then the HDD array - or does it not matter too much? I don't really know what function that image serves. Edited July 20 by Techizare Quote Link to comment
Techizare Posted July 20 Author Share Posted July 20 I installed Dynamix File Manager plugin, I deleted the content of the cache drive. That old VM is still showing. Things are looking bleak. Quote Link to comment
Techizare Posted July 20 Author Share Posted July 20 (edited) Turned off the array, turned it back on, and my new VM is showing, with the chase drive. Posting this for the benefit of future noobs. Edited July 23 by Techizare Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 You can move the image to cache, just disable the VM service first. Quote Link to comment
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