cloning fails

[falves1]

a Windows virtual machine (powered off) fails to clone, this hangs forever

qm clone 104 109
create full clone of drive virtio0 (Disk2T:104/vm-104-disk-1.qcow2)
Formatting '/nfs1/images/109/vm-109-disk-0.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 size=536870912000 cluster_size=65536 preallocation=metadata lazy_refcounts=off refcount_bits=16
transferred: 0 bytes remaining: 536870912000 bytes total: 536870912000 bytes progression: 0.00 %

df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1 2.4T 1.2T 1.3T 47% /nfs1

uname -r
4.15.18-20-pve

the server is fully patched.

What should I do?

 

[adrian_vg]

Hello all!

Just recently installed Proxmox 6.1-7 on a Dell R710 with 6x 2 TB drives in a raid5 fashion and ran into the same problem as the OP.
Creating new vms from scratch works very well - cloning them, less so.

Running qm clone 102 103 on the cli, gives me the below in the gui-status page.

create full clone of drive scsi0 (local-lvm:vm-102-disk-1)
Logical volume "vm-103-disk-1" created.

After what feels like forever, it's still running , so I stopped it. It does say it's 100% though in the gui.

create full clone of drive scsi0 (local-lvm:vm-102-disk-1)
Logical volume "vm-103-disk-0" created.
transferred: 0 bytes remaining: 34359738368 bytes total: 34359738368 bytes progression: 0.00 %
transferred: 343597383 bytes remaining: 34016140985 bytes total: 34359738368 bytes progression: 1.00 %
...
transferred: 34050500722 bytes remaining: 309237646 bytes total: 34359738368 bytes progression: 99.10 %
transferred: 34359738368 bytes remaining: 0 bytes total: 34359738368 bytes progression: 100.00 %
transferred: 34359738368 bytes remaining: 0 bytes total: 34359738368 bytes progression: 100.00 %

The vm isn't that big, it newly created with a 32GB hd, one cpu and 512 MB RAM (the default setting in Proxmox) which is basically empty, so it shouldn't use the entire 32 GB of space, which may take a longer time.

Retried the cloning on the cli, and got this:

root@dragonborn:~# qm clone 102 104
WARNING: Device /dev/dm-11 not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.
WARNING: Device /dev/dm-12 not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.
WARNING: Device /dev/dm-12 not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.
clone failed: command '/sbin/lvs --separator : --noheadings --units b --unbuffered --nosuffix --options lv_size /dev/pve/vm-102-disk-
1' failed: got timeout
root@dragonborn:~#

So what gives??

Any help appreciated.
If more or other info is needed please let me know.
Thanks in advance!

 

[cruzzer]

As I've posted in a separate thread on the German part of the forum, I'm encountering the same issue.

Independent of using the GUI or CLI, it will just wait indefinitely at 100% as you report. Cloning seems to be such a fundamental feature, I can't imagine this not working for everyone. So something must be different here.

Have any of you learned more about the issue? Have you found a fix? I might install Proxmox on another machine and see if it has the same behavior there.

 

[adrian_vg]

Have any of you learned more about the issue? Have you found a fix? I might install Proxmox on another machine and see if it has the same behavior there.

Haven't tried since I posted half a year ago.
Should problably do it just to check.
There have been I think at least two minor release versions since then.

 

[adrian_vg]

Testing from GUI now.

 

[adrian_vg]

Still running.
The vm I'm cloning is a bare-bones ubuntu/apache-server with a 32GB virtual disk.

 

[adrian_vg]

create full clone of drive scsi0 (local-lvm:vm-105-disk-0)
Logical volume "vm-115-disk-0" created.
transferred: 0 bytes remaining: 34359738368 bytes total: 34359738368 bytes progression: 0.00 %
.
.
.
transferred: 34050500722 bytes remaining: 309237646 bytes total: 34359738368 bytes progression: 99.10 %
transferred: 34359738368 bytes remaining: 0 bytes total: 34359738368 bytes progression: 100.00 %
transferred: 34359738368 bytes remaining: 0 bytes total: 34359738368 bytes progression: 100.00 %
TASK OK

 

[adrian_vg]

It actually finished it! Woo-hoo!!

 

[cruzzer]

Any idea of how long you had to wait? 5min, 10min, 20min?

Then I'll give it another try and wait 30min.

 

[cruzzer]

WARNING: Device /dev/dm-65 not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.
Logical volume "vm-104-disk-0" successfully removed
.
.
.
clone failed: command '/sbin/lvs --separator : --noheadings --units b --unbuffered --nosuffix --options lv_size /dev/pve/vm-104-disk-1' failed: got timeout

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After about 20min it aborted. Maybe there are some updates I haven't found a way to apply.

 

[adrian_vg]

Any idea of how long you had to wait? 5min, 10min, 20min?

Then I'll give it another try and wait 30min.

About eleven minutes. That's why I commented on the size of the original vm.
Feels kinda' long for a 36 GB-vm.

My server is a Dell PE R710 with 6x 2TB SAS-drives in a RAID5-fashion.
It's old, but stuff shouldn't take that long I think. Or should they?

 

[adrian_vg]

WARNING: Device /dev/dm-65 not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.
Logical volume "vm-104-disk-0" successfully removed
.
.
.
clone failed: command '/sbin/lvs --separator : --noheadings --units b --unbuffered --nosuffix --options lv_size /dev/pve/vm-104-disk-1' failed: got timeout

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After about 20min it aborted. Maybe there are some updates I haven't found a way to apply.

I run the free version BTW, and update regularly.


root@dragonborn:~# pveversion --verbose
proxmox-ve: 6.2-2 (running kernel: 5.4.60-1-pve)
pve-manager: 6.2-11 (running version: 6.2-11/22fb4983)
pve-kernel-5.4: 6.2-6
pve-kernel-helper: 6.2-6
pve-kernel-5.3: 6.1-6
pve-kernel-5.4.60-1-pve: 5.4.60-2
pve-kernel-5.4.55-1-pve: 5.4.55-1
pve-kernel-5.3.18-3-pve: 5.3.18-3
pve-kernel-5.3.10-1-pve: 5.3.10-1
ceph-fuse: 12.2.11+dfsg1-2.1+b1
corosync: 3.0.4-pve1
criu: 3.11-3
glusterfs-client: 5.5-3
ifupdown: residual config
ifupdown2: 3.0.0-1+pve2
ksm-control-daemon: 1.3-1
libjs-extjs: 6.0.1-10
libknet1: 1.16-pve1
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.0.5
libpve-access-control: 6.1-2
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.0-3
libpve-common-perl: 6.2-2
libpve-guest-common-perl: 3.1-3
libpve-http-server-perl: 3.0-6
libpve-storage-perl: 6.2-6
libqb0: 1.0.5-1
libspice-server1: 0.14.2-4~pve6+1
lvm2: 2.03.02-pve4
lxc-pve: 4.0.3-1
lxcfs: 4.0.3-pve3
novnc-pve: 1.1.0-1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.1-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 2.2-12
pve-cluster: 6.1-8
pve-container: 3.2-1
pve-docs: 6.2-5
pve-edk2-firmware: 2.20200531-1
pve-firewall: 4.1-2
pve-firmware: 3.1-3
pve-ha-manager: 3.1-1
pve-i18n: 2.2-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 5.1.0-2
pve-xtermjs: 4.7.0-2
qemu-server: 6.2-14
smartmontools: 7.1-pve2
spiceterm: 3.1-1
vncterm: 1.6-2
zfsutils-linux: 0.8.4-pve1
root@dragonborn:~#

 

[cruzzer]

Thank you for the response.

I was meaning to mention that I'm cloning a 16 GB disk. For hardware compatibility reasons I'm currently on 5.3. I'll reboot with the 5.4 and see if that changes the situation.

Update1: It also failed with the 5.4 kernel. I'll install proxmox to different hardware and see how it behaves there.
Update2: I can confirm that with a different hardware it worked. The other machine was also freshly installed. So I'm a bit puzzled as to where the difference lies.

 

[Manny Vazquez]

I got the same issue, the cloning process just hanged after what seemed to be done.. but it was frozen and locked.
So, this is the work around I did to get it working.

1: Stop the cloning (just click stop on the GUI)
2.- Go into host console and unlock the vm
3.- rm the config file
4.- CP the original config file to the new name
5:- Edit the config to the new 'hard drive' (I understand some might not be able to if using ZFS on local but there are ways around that also)
6.- On new vm hardware tab:

1. remove the net, and add a new one.
2. Change BIOS twice (just to be sure and clean)
3. Change the Processor type (just to be sure and clean)

7.- Boot.. it worked perfectly for me.