Re: VMWare / Backup / OpenBSD 7.1 / Quiesce

For anyone interested.

After enabling some debugging on the vmt driver, I discovered that the
message being sent for the quiesce is "vmbackup.startWithOpts ". This
message is not supported by the driver.

Thanks,
Mike

On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 at 15:15, Mike Mercier <mmercier@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am testing backups of an OpenBSD 7.1 guest on VMWare 6.7 with a DELL
> Avamar appliance, using the vmimage functionality of the device. The
> OpenBSD backups complete with 'exceptions', the error code being 10020.
> What I see in the Avamar logs is the following:
> --
> vSphere Task failed (application quiesce): 'An error occurred while
> quiescing the virtual machine. See the vitual machine's event log for
> details.'.
> Application consistent snapshot quiesce failure.
> The VM could not be quiesced prior to snapshot creation and this backup
> may not be used as a base for subsequest CBT backup if successful.
> --
>
> Does the OpenBSD VMware tools driver VMT(4) support the VMWare quiesce
> command? Looking through the vmt.c code I believe it does. During my
> testing of the backup and doing ad-hoc snapshots, I did see the following
> message on the OpenBSD guest console once - 'vmt0: aborting quiesce'.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>