Re: [Libguestfs] [ovirt-devel] virt-v2v become zombie via python cpopen on error

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Michal Skrivanek <michal.skrivanek(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >> On 30 Mar 2016, at 11:49, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:19:35PM +0300, Shahar Havivi wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> We encounter a problem in VDSM project that virt-v2v become zombie task while >>> importing vm from vmware. >>> When virt-v2v is in 'copy disk' mode and we someone deletes the vm at vmware >>> the process hang in read() method, >>> I am pretty sure that its not virt-v2v problem because when I run it from the >>> shell virt-v2v exit with an error, still maybe someone have an idea.... >>> >>> I wrote a small python script that encounter the problem: >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> from cpopen import CPopen >>> >>> env = {'LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND': 'direct'} >>> cmd = ['/usr/bin/virt-v2v', '-ic', >>> 'vpx://....', '-o', >>> 'local', '-os', '/tmp', '-of', 'raw', '-oa', 'sparse', >>> '--password-file', '/tmp/passwd', '--machine-readable', 'bbb'] >>> p = CPopen(cmd, env=env) >>> while p.returncode is None: p.returncode just return the instance variable, there is no wait() involved. The right way: while p.poll() is None:

... p.returncode calling wait is non-standard feature in vdsm AsyncProc wrapper. This is the object used by v2v vdsm module, so there accessing p.returncode does call p.poll(). These non-standard apis will be removed from vdsm, please do not use them. >>> c = p.stdout.read(1) >>> print c >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> An actual zombie task? That would indicate that the parent process >> (your Python program) wasn't doing a wait system call. >> >> I downloaded the cpopen-1.4 program, and it doesn't appear to call any >> of the wait*(2) system calls anywhere, so that could be the problem. > > I suppose the cpopen parameters are not alright…I’m sure vdsm developers can help with that. > >> >> Rich. >> >> -- >> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones >> Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com >> virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a >> live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. >> http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel