# \[Live Migration\] Instance shutdown by itself.
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/live-migration-instance-shutdown-by-itself/29788
**Category:** SUSE OpenStack Cloud
**Created:** [May 15, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/live-migration-instance-shutdown-by-itself/29788 "2017-05-15T17:36:06Z")
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### Author:  [@jurrien](https://forums.suse.com/u/jurrien)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/live-migration-instance-shutdown-by-itself/29788/1 "2017-05-15T17:36:06Z")
Hi all,
I have Suse Cloud 6 installed with shared storage so I can test Live Migration. When I test Live Migration the instance status is changed to Shutoff and the power state is Shut Down.
I checked the logs of the nova computes nodes and the controller and the online message that is a not an INFO is:
[FONT=Courier New]2017-05-15 16:21:02.463 1588 WARNING nova.compute.manager [req-ac5fd5e2-db24-459f-b045-fad4bfbccc2a - - - - -] [instance: e4932875-c71d-4f5d-b561-a5c61ce1f1c8] Instance shutdown by itself. Calling the stop API. Current vm\_state: active, current task\_state: None, original DB power\_state: 4, current VM power\_state: 4[/FONT]
This is not really what I expected. I would assume that the instance is running on the other node. It is migrated to the other host but it is shutdown.
Any idea what’s going on?
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### Author:  [@smflood](https://forums.suse.com/u/smflood)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/live-migration-instance-shutdown-by-itself/29788/2 "2017-05-15T19:29:20Z")
On 15/05/17 15:44, jurrien wrote:
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> I have Suse Cloud 6 installed with shared storage so I can test Live
> Migration. When I test Live Migration the instance status is changed to
> Shutoff and the power state is Shut Down.
>
> I checked the logs of the nova computes nodes and the controller and the
> online message that is a not an INFO is:
>
> 2017-05-15 16:21:02.463 1588 WARNING nova.compute.manager
> [req-ac5fd5e2-db24-459f-b045-fad4bfbccc2a - - - - -] [instance:
> e4932875-c71d-4f5d-b561-a5c61ce1f1c8] Instance shutdown by itself.
> Calling the stop API. Current vm\_state: active, current task\_state:
> None, original DB power\_state: 4, current VM power\_state: 4
>
> This is not really what I expected. I would assume that the instance is
> running on the other node. It is migrated to the other host but it is
> shutdown.
>
> Any idea what’s going on?[/color]
Which hypervisor are your Compute Nodes running? KVM or Xen?
Is ‘Live Migration Support: Enable Libvirt Migration’ enabled in the
Dashboard for Nova?
If your Compute Nodes are Xen have you enabled ‘Live Migration Support:
Setup Shared Storage’ in the Dashboard for Nova?
## HTH.
Simon
SUSE Knowledge Partner
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### Author:  [@jurrien](https://forums.suse.com/u/jurrien)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/live-migration-instance-shutdown-by-itself/29788/3 "2017-05-15T20:26:42Z")
Hi Simon,
It is KVM.
Yes, Live Migration is enabled.
By Dashboard you mean Crowbar (Admin server) right? Ifso: Yes 🙂
It’s KVM so I have mounted a NFS share under /var/lib/nova/instances on both compute hosts.
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### Author:  [@jurrien](https://forums.suse.com/u/jurrien)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2017, 10:35am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/live-migration-instance-shutdown-by-itself/29788/4 "2017-05-16T10:35:27Z")
Oke this is weird…
Start reading some other posts from 2016: [http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/2016-September/011669.html](http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/2016-September/011669.html)
I didn’t had anything so lose so I tested mem\_stats\_period\_seconds = 0 in nova.conf.
And now the Live Migration works!