Cannot start KVM VPS in SolusVM: Document is empty

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Applicable to:

  • SolusVM

Symptoms

  1. Cannot start KVM VPS via SolusVM > Virtual Servers > affected VPS > Boot - no response from VPS.

  2. Restart via SolusVM > Virtual Servers > affected VPS > Reboot (debug) shows:

    SVM_ERROR: error: Failed to create domain from /home/kvm/kvm101/kvm101.xml
    error: (domain_definition):1: Document is empty

Cause

Ownership of /home/kvm/kvm101/kvm101.xml is different from default:

# ls -l /home/kvm/kvm101/kvm101.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 solusvm solusvm 1204 Jun 24 09:51 /home/kvm/kvm101/kvm101.xml

Resolution

  1. Connect to the slave node where the affected VPS is located over SSH.

  2. Set correct ownership for the file:

    # chown solusvm:solusvm /home/kvm/kvm101/kvm101.xml

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