Thank you to all 3 of you for the advice. I was able to use vdsClient to end the task.
________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Yair Zaslavsky [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 5:36 PM To: Liron Aravot Cc: Oved Ourfali; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Cancelling a running task ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Liron Aravot" <[email protected]> > To: "Eli Mesika" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 2:51:37 PM > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Cancelling a running task > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Eli Mesika" <[email protected]> > > To: "Daniel Lang" <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 2:23:00 PM > > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Cancelling a running task > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Daniel Lang" <[email protected]> > > > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2014 6:24:48 PM > > > Subject: [ovirt-users] Cancelling a running task > > > > > > > > > > > > I am creating a VM and the copy from template operation has gone haywire > > > causing significant performance issues on the host server. I’d like to > > > cancel the copying image action (it’s been running ~3hours on a 3GB disk > > > image copy) but I cannot find anything in the web UI to cancel a task. Is > > > there a command line tool to cancel the running task? > > > > login to your SPM host and run the following > > > > vdsClient -s 0 getAllTasksStatuses > > > > You can than use > > > > stopTask > > <TaskID> > > stop async task > > > > and then > > > > clearTask > > <TaskID> > > clear async task > > > > > > > I suggest to only stop the task/tasks and let the ovirt engine to perform the > clearance of the tasks. +1 - I agree with Liron. Let AsyncTaskManager handle the task clearing - it will also remove relevant entries from db. Ravi, what do you think? > > > > > > > > > > > > > The oVirt version is 3.4 and vdsm version 4.14. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for any advice or links to documentation/man pages. > > > > > > > > > > > > Daniel Lang > > > > > > © Copyright 2014 REDI Global Technologies LLC (“REDI”), member FINRA, > > > SIPC. > > > All rights reserved. The information contained in and accompanying this > > > communication may be confidential, subject to legal privilege, or > > > otherwise > > > protected from disclosure, and is intended solely for the use of the > > > intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this > > > communication, please delete and destroy all copies in your possession, > > > notify the sender that you have received this communication in error, and > > > note that any review or dissemination of, or the taking of any action in > > > reliance on, this communication is expressly prohibited. 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