Image States Reference

This page is a complete reference of all the Image states that will be useful for administrators doing troubleshooting and developers.

The simplified life-cycle is explained in the Virtual Machines Images guide. That simplified diagram uses a smaller number of state names. That section should be enough for end-users and every-day administration tasks.

List of States

OpenNebula’s images define its state using the STATE variable. The state can be seen from the CLI (oneimage show) and from Sunstone (Info panel for the Image).

#	State	Short State Alias	Meaning
0	INIT	init	Initialization state
1	READY	rdy	Image ready to use
2	USED	used	The image is being used by other VM
3	DISABLED	disa	Image can not be instantiated by a VM
4	LOCKED	lock	FS operation for the Image in process
5	ERROR	err	Error state the operation FAILED
6	CLONE	clon	Image is being cloned
7	DELETE	dele	DS is deleting the image
8	USED_PERS	used	Image is in use and persistent
9	LOCKED_USED	lock	FS operation in progress, VMs waiting
10	LOCKED_USED_PERS	lock	FS operation in progress, VMs waiting. Persistent