Hi John, On 10/28/2013 08:55 PM, John Wilkins wrote: > John, > > I've never installed anything on Scientific Linux.
SL6 is binary compatible with other EL6 varieties. This host uses the same repos as CentOS for Dave Scott's xenserver-core technology preview: EPEL6, Dave's XenServer + Ceph technology preview, Dave's xenserver-core snapshot repo, and the ceph.com Dumpling repo. > Are you sure that QEMU has RBD support? > > I have some wip-doc text, which I'm going to move around shortly. You > can see the yum install requirements here: > > http://ceph.com/docs/wip-doc-install/install/yum-priorities/ > http://ceph.com/docs/wip-doc-install/install/install-qemu/#rpm-packages The SL6 qemu-img package does not have RBD support, but I did find those repos yesterday, and installed the RBD-capable qemu-img package from there. There are no other obvious qemu-related packages (as in 'rpm -qa | grep qemu') originating from SL6, and just one from Dave's repo, 'libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu'. > Make sure you can run QEMU commands on RBD first, since that's a dependency. > > http://ceph.com/docs/wip-doc-install/rbd/qemu-rbd/ Since installing the ceph.com package, the 'qemu-img -f rbd' commands work. Before, the SL6 version 'qemu-img -f rbd' commands complained about rbd being an unknown format. However, xapi was able to launch VMs both before and after the qemu-img package update, with no effect on the intermittent hangs. The 'xe vm-start' hanging problem is not shared by the 'xe vdi-*' commands (or the updated 'qemu-img -f rbd *' commands), which have no trouble manipulating rbd-backed vdis at all. Anything I might've missed in there? Thanks for the tips! John > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:01 PM, John Morris <j...@zultron.com> wrote: >> I'm encountering a problem with RBD-backed Xen. During a VM boot, >> pygrub attaches the VM's root VDI to dom0. This hangs with these >> messages in the debug log: >> >> Oct 27 21:19:59 xen27 kernel: >> vbd vbd-51728: 16 Device in use; refusing to close >> Oct 27 21:19:59 xen27 xenopsd-xenlight: >> [xenops] waiting for backend to close >> Oct 27 21:19:59 xen27 kernel: >> qemu-system-i38[2899]: segfault at 7fac042e4000 ip 00007fac0447b129 >> sp 00007fffe7028630 error 4 in qemu-system-i386[7fac042ed000+309000] >> >> More details here: >> >> http://pastebin.ca/2472234 >> >> - Scientific Linux 6 >> - 64-bit, Phenom CPU >> - Ceph from RPM ceph-0.67.4-0.el6.x86_64 >> - XenAPI from Dave Scott's technology preview >> - two btrfs-backed OSDs with journals on separate drives >> - various kernels, incl. 3.4.6 from Dave Scott's repo and 3.11.6 >> from elrepo.org. >> >> This thread (whose Subject: I borrowed) describes what I'm seeing quite >> well, but no resolution was posted: >> >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ceph.user/3636 >> >> In my case, udevd starts a 'blkid' process that holds /dev/xvdb open. >> Like in James's case, any interaction with the device will hang, and >> usually can't be killed. This same problem prevents the machine from >> completing shutdown. >> >> In that thread, Sylvain Munaut says the OSD and kernel driver shouldn't >> be run in the same host. I believe my setup does not violate that, >> since the rbd kernel module is not loaded, and instead the device is >> attached through the xen_blkfront module instead. >> >> Thanks- >> >> John >> _______________________________________________ >> ceph-users mailing list >> ceph-users@lists.ceph.com >> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > > > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
