By agent you mean CS management server? I am running CS 4.1.1. would the command cloudstack-ssh work, if the VM does not respond on its ip addresses?
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > > > On 04/07/2014 02:20 PM, Rafael Weingartner wrote: > >> Thanks man ;). >> By any chance if a system VM does not get its ip assigned, would there be >> any way to debug and check what is going on? I mean, if after it is >> running >> on the physical host it does respond on the IP that was assigned to it. >> >> > I say check the agent's log (set to debug!) and try to SSH into the SSVM > with the cloudstack-ssh command. > > Wido > > > >> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> >> wrote: >> >> >>> >>> On 04/07/2014 12:33 AM, Rafael Weingartner wrote: >>> >>> Hi folks, >>>> I was wondering how a system vm gets an IP address. I know they are the >>>> first things that CS needs in order to start up others VMs, so when they >>>> start there is no virtual router to assign IP addresses via DHCP. >>>> >>>> >>>> Via a local virtio socket from the hypervisor in KVM mode. The VM boots >>> and via that local serial socket it gets the IP-address. >>> >>> >>> I also noticed that on the physical hosts with the VM.Start command CS >>> >>>> sends some extra data that includes the IPs that the VM should get. >>>> However, I have no idea how it actually gets those parameters and set >>>> its >>>> IP. >>>> >>>> >>> The management server sends this information to the KVM agent. User >>> Instances get the IP address via DHCP from the VR, System VMs via the >>> local >>> serial socket. >>> >>> Wido >>> >>> >>> >>> Does anyone here know how it works? >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> -- Rafael Weingärtner
