It's my ESX4i testing server
with 3 datastores
one local and 2 over NFS mounts that are not responding
Plus this ESX4i server is quite messed up with cloning tests
I made before discovering the OVA-templates

I'll clean and try again and will make a mental note
to test NFS datastore diconnections 

Thanks
Shahar


From: Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte@googlemail.com>
To: Shahar Klein <shaharklein@yahoo.com>
Cc: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>; veillard@redhat.com; libvir-list@redhat.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:56:43 PM
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Python binding to virConnectListInterfaces

2009/9/15 Shahar Klein <shaharklein@yahoo.com>:
> understood
> so, is that a bug?
> virsh # list
>  Id Name                 State
> ----------------------------------
>  16 rh53                 running
> 256 smallLinux           running
> 336 diskless linux       running
> virsh # dominfo 16
> Id:             16
> Name:           rh53
> UUID:           564dea41-bf37-44d6-2c9e-c6009be71aa6
> OS Type:        hvm
> State:          running
> CPU(s):         1
> Max memory:     393216 kB
> Used memory:    393216 kB
> virsh #
> virsh # dumpxml 16
> error: internal error Datastore URL '' has unexpected prefix, expecting
> '/vmfs/volumes/' prefix
>

This message indicates that your ESX server has a datastore with URL
set to an empty string. This is unexpected.

Goto https://<your-esx-server>/mob then goto content -> rootFolder ->
childEntity -> datastore. For each datastore element check the
info.url property, if one of them is an empty string or unset then
this is the cause for this error message.

If this is really the case for you, the question is: Is an empty URL
valid, or is this a configuration issue with you ESX server?

Matthias