[libvirt] esx: What does "No storage volume with key or path" mean?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 09:22:58PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> We've had a report of a particular vCenter server (using VMware
> clustering, we think) where virStorageVolInfo of a guest volume fails
> with:
> 
>   Storage volume not found: No storage volume with key or path '[...] ...'
> 
> The error comes from esxVI_LookupFileInfoByDatastorePath:
> https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=src/esx/esx_vi.c;h=f7eeeb5c539914f1a0ba8d974b49e56ecf01e5fd;hb=HEAD#l3571
> 
> What does it mean?
> 
> The reporter also said they could do some (frankly voodoo) moving
> guests around and then the error went away.  We're not sure if that
> was just coincidence.

Anyone any idea on this?

Rich.

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