Ref: http://cloud.kelceydamage.com/cloudfire/blog/2013/10/08/conquering-the-cloudstack-4-2-dragon-kvm/

JIRA Ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-4826

The following is a how to guide for getting your system VMs to use the latest template.

 

Method (1)

There is another method to fix the system VM template issue. The following should work if you are familiar with the application infrastructure:

(1) register a new template (such as systemvmtemplate-4.2) on UI or in Upgrade*.java file
(2) Change template type from User to System in Upgrade*.java file.
(3) cloud-install-sys-tmplt download the systemvm template
(4) cloudstack-sysvmadm re-deploy systemvms

 

Method (2)

Step 1): Mount your secondary storage to your management server with the following:

mount -t nfs {ip_of_storage_server}:[path_to_secondary_storage] /mnt

Step 2): Download the latest version of the templates:

/usr/share/cloudstack-common/scripts/storage/secondary/cloud-install-sys-tmplt -m /mnt -u http://download.cloud.com/templates/4.2/systemvmtemplate-2013-06-12-master-kvm.qcow2.bz2 -h kvm -F

Step 3): Find the name of the old template in the database:

USE cloud
SELECT install_path FROM template_host_ref WHERE template_id=3;

Sample output:

template/tmpl/1/3//44d12c68-82f6-3d46-8073-9db0e835b94c.qcow2

Step 4): write down the name of the .qcow2 file that your given in the previous step.

Step 5): from the management server locate the new template on the mounted secondary storage:

cd /mnt/template/tmpl/1/3/

Step 6): rename the .qcow2 file in that folder to the name we copied from the database.

Step 7): edit the template.properties file in the same folder and change both instances of the old name to the new one.

Step 8): we need to reset the cached template in the database:

UPDATE template_spool_ref SET download_pct='0',download_state='NOT_DOWNLOADED',state='NULL',local_path='NULL',install_path='NULL',template_size='0' WHERE template_id='3';

Step 9): Unmount your secondary storage from the management server:

umount /mnt

Step 10): disable the zone from the management UI.

Step 11): update the database records for your system VMs to be ‘Stopped’. You will need to do this for both the Secondary Storage VM and the Console Proxy. The ID of the system VM is the number in it’s name, for example; s-34-VM,, would have an ID of ’34′.

UPDATE vm_instance SET state='Stopped' where id='{id_of_system_vm}';

Step 12): From the management UI, destroy both the system VMs.

Step 13): Once both system VMs have been destroyed, re-enable the zone.

Step 14): Tail the management log and watch for the VMs to start.

tail -f /var/log/cloudstack/management/management-server.log

 

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