On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Rohit Yadav <bhais...@apache.org> wrote:
> Thanks a lot Marcus, your findings have been useful. I've applied the
> locale fix and a grub2 boot timeout fix (systemvms should boot 5
> seconds faster now).
> Alright so far we're good, tested and systemvm seems to work on KVM
> (Marcus) and Xen, anyone to help us with VMWare?
>
> Marcus, about the qemu-ga, we need to patch all our templates as per
> systemvm type (ssvm, cpvm or rvm), for that we're using the
> systemvm.iso to patch the template appliance and we reboot once
> patching is done successfully in cloud-early-config. So, with using
> qemu-ga or our own daemon (assumming through socket we already got
> authorized key), do we want to make mgmt server or host copy the
> scripts inside the systemvm or just continue using current patching
> mechanism that uses the iso to mount and patch? Marcus can you share
> how we can use the new systemvm on devcloud-kvm (osx/vmware-fusion).
>
> Regards.
I think the systemvm.iso is a completely fine way of getting new code
onto the system vms. My main goal at this point was to just get rid of
the patch disk portion. Also, since it sounds like we're wanting to
move to a link-local API to control the system vms I think we'll
forego qemu-guest-agent or putting our own daemon on the virtio serial
device and simply use it to copy the cmdline/authorized keys.
If this updated system vm checks out, I'll update the devcloud-kvm
packages with it preinstalled, replacing the older one. Or in the
meantime what I've been doing is simply downloading yours and moving
it into place over the existing one, giving it the same name, before
deploying anything.
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oh, and I have yet to test all of the vpc functions, but so far so
>> good. I was able to bring up the VPC, it got it's gateways all
>> configured, and my public ip with portforwarding rule/ acl to allow 22
>> in worked.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Rohit, I think I tracked down why the router keeps rebooting. When it
>>> comes up, the first thing we do is run get_template_version.sh, which
>>> replies:
>>>
>>> /bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
>>> Cloudstack Release 4.2.0 Tue Mar 5 13:17:51 UTC
>>> 2013&a8af8cdd546e575e64f69b6f80ef949c
>>>
>>> Looks like we don't like that locale warning:
>>>
>>> GetDomRVersionAnswer":{"result":false,"details":"bash: warning:
>>> setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)"
>>>
>>> I can fix it by running this in the system vm:
>>>
>>> locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Chiradeep Vittal
>>> <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> wrote:
>>>> OK, one more niggle about the previous system vm. We tried to enable aesni
>>>> [1] to boost encryption performance (ipsec vpn, anything ssl), but the
>>>> system vm would crash on Vmware if we did that (hence the module
>>>> blacklisted). Could someone try the new systemvm on VMWare with aesni
>>>> enabled? I believe it is as simple as
>>>> modprobe aesni_intel and
>>>> openssl 1.0.1
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set
>>>>
>>>> On 3/4/13 10:46 PM, "Rohit Yadav" <bhais...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks to Mate
>>>>>(blogs.citrix.com/2012/10/04/convert-a-raw-image-to-xenserver-vhd/)
>>>>>I'm able to ship appliances that work for Xen. Chiradeep, there is no
>>>>>need to use the powershell hack now, if people still want vhdx, they
>>>>>can use that hack. The current appliance for Xen (vbox->raw->vhd)
>>>>>works.
>>>>>
>>>>>At least appliance for HyperV and Xen works:
>>>>>http://jenkins.cloudstack.org/job/build-systemvm-master/
>>>>>
>>>>>I've tested and found that:
>>>>>- patching happens
>>>>>- password server works
>>>>>- apache was running, user data works
>>>>>- template creation works
>>>>>- snapshot to template works
>>>>>
>>>>>I won't be able to test VPC/advance zone of DevCloud, ipv6 etc.
>>>>>someone from QA would have to help.
>>>>>Thanks Marcus for your suggestion, will compress qcow2 and test on KVM
>>>>>today.
>>>>>I need help on testing/fixing VMWare systemvm template appliance.
>>>>>
>>>>>Ahmad :) all natural:
>>>>>http://highlatencylife.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/awesomesauce.png
>>>>>
>>>>>Regards.
>>>>>PS. Was AFK yesterday, down with flu, much better now.
>>>>>
>>>>>On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Chiradeep Vittal
>>>>><chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 3/1/13 4:03 AM, "Rohit Yadav" <bhais...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>- Saw systemvms started from the template, saw patching happening,
>>>>>>>logged in with creds (root/password) to verify that it was indeed the
>>>>>>>new one (Linux 3.2 :)
>>>>>>>- The agents were running fine, there was a latency issue (agents were
>>>>>>>lagging behind)
>>>>>>>- (Applied a fix describe on CLOUDSTACK-1370 to make the deployVM
>>>>>>>work) VR came up, did it's SDN magic and tinyLinux was deployed
>>>>>>>- Console proxy worked for me as well
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would also test
>>>>>> - password server
>>>>>> - user data management (is apache web server running?)
>>>>>> In addition
>>>>>> - zone-to-zone template copy
>>>>>> - template creation
>>>>>> - convert snapshot to template
>>>>>> - vpc
>>>>>> - ipv6
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Chiradeep, is there a way to convert VHD (HyperV) to VHD (Xen), I hear
>>>>>>>that they both differ in some magic bits?
>>>>>> Actually since we intend to support Windows 2012, we should be using
>>>>>>VHDX.
>>>>>> There's a way to do it with Powershell (from vhd(hyper-v) -> vhdx)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2012/10/03/using-powershel
>>>>>>l-
>>>>>> to-convert-a-vhd-to-a-vhdx.aspx
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
