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