Virtual Machines are not appearing in Virtual Manager after reboot the RHEL5.5 Serve
 

Hi All,
I installed Xen Virtual manager in RHEL 5.5 Server, because of power issue last night my Server was shut down, to day morning I power on my Server and open the virtual manager, I surprised my vm's are not appearing in virtual manager box, I checked after reboot the Server but vm's are not appearing in virtual manager box.
Please help me.

Thanks in advance.
Shanker.K

It depends on the server machine which you are using as according to me it must be a old model. In that case after every shutdown you will have to manually add all the vms to the inventory.
Browse the datastore or the storage device and manually add the vms with extensions "*.vmx" to the inventory

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Hi deepak,
I checked /var/lib/xen folder but I did not find any .vmx files I found .img files,how to find .vmx files in the server and what is the steps to import existing vms

Thanks in advance.
Shanker.K

I have not used redhat virtual manager. I am using vmware in my dell server where I have to manually browse the datastore where all the vms are stored.

You must have specified some locations to store the vms HDD while creating one. Manually go to the location and give a double click or right click to look for options

Inside the harddisk you will find vm files with extensions .vmx , .vmdk and many others consisting snapshots.

Hi All,
I installed Xen Virtual manager in RHEL 5.5 Server, because of power issue last night my Server was shut down, to day morning I power on my Server and open the virtual manager, I surprised my vm's are not appearing in virtual manager box, I checked after reboot the Server but vm's are not appearing in virtual manager box.
Please help me.

Thanks in advance.
Shanker.K

That is what I am saying,

while creating new vms we specifiy storage location where the vm will be saved. Just browse to that location. Like for my oracle virtualbox you can check the snapshot. Similarly you need to check the home directory of all the vms.

I found .img files but when I am trying to restore saved virtual machine with virtual manager i got The file /vm/odc.img does not appear to be a valid saved machine.

run this command