Github user rafaelweingartner commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1956#discussion_r102292787 --- Diff: engine/orchestration/src/com/cloud/vm/VirtualMachineManagerImpl.java --- @@ -744,14 +744,17 @@ protected boolean checkWorkItems(final VMInstanceVO vm, final State state) throw protected <T extends VMInstanceVO> boolean changeState(final T vm, final Event event, final Long hostId, final ItWorkVO work, final Step step) throws NoTransitionException { // FIXME: We should do this better. - final Step previousStep = work.getStep(); - _workDao.updateStep(work, step); + Step previousStep = null; + if (work != null) { + previousStep = work.getStep(); --- End diff -- Ok, now I think I am starting to get it. But I am still not sure about some things here, would you mind continue discussing? If the work is not null, you get the previous step (letâs assume it is not null) and call the method ` _workDao.updateStep(work, step)`. After this, you call ` stateTransitTo(vm, event, hostId)`. Why do we need to call ` _workDao.updateStep(work, previousStep)` again? The ` previousStep ` continues to be the same.
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