[PVE-User] Bug when removing a VM

lemonnierk at ulrar.net lemonnierk at ulrar.net
Thu Jun 21 16:54:26 CEST 2018


On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 04:33:25PM +0200, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> > Il 21/06/2018 10:43, Dietmar Maurer ha scritto:
> > > In general, you should never mount storage on different clusters at the same
> > > time. This is always dangerous - mostly because there is no locking and
> > > because of VMID conflicts. If you do, mount at least read-only.
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes, that's dangerous (I was hurt by this).
> > 
> > But still I do not understand why, if you remove a VM that has a disk 
> > hosted in a specific storage, it will removed also on all other storage 
> > (they ), or, like it happened to me, all the logical volumes with the 
> > same VMID number in the name.
> 
> All volume belongs to a VM, indicated by the encoded VMID. If you 
> remove a VM, we remove all volumes belonging to that VM.
> 

You remove anything containing the VMID, even volumes that the VM config
aren't refering to. That's really, really strange and should be warned
in big bright red in the interface I think, because that's really not
what you'd expect.

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