CentOS KVM systemvm issue

2014-09-12 Thread John Skinner
I have found that on CloudStack 4.2 + (when we changed to using the virtio-socket to send data to the systemvm) when running CentOS 6.X cloud-early-config fails. On new systemvm creation there is a high chance for success, but still a chance for failure. After the systemvm has been created a

Re: CentOS KVM systemvm issue

2014-09-12 Thread Marcus
Can you provide more info? Is the host running CentOS 6.x, or is your systemvm? What is rebooted, the host or the router, and how is it rebooted? We have what sounds like the same config (CentOS 6.x hosts, stock community provided systemvm), and are running thousands of virtual routers, rebooted

Re: CentOS KVM systemvm issue

2014-09-12 Thread Marcus
You may also want to investigate on whether you are seeing a race condition with /dev/vport0p1 coming on line and cloud-early-config running. It will be indicated by a log line in the systemvm /var/log/cloud.log: log_it /dev/vport0p1 not loaded, perhaps guest kernel is too old. Actually, if it

Re: CentOS KVM systemvm issue

2014-09-12 Thread David Bierce
John — I’ve submitted our patch to work around the issue to review board and tied it to the original ticket we found. I submitted it against the 4.3 but I know you’ve been testing the patch on 4.2. If someone could take a look at it for sanity, please check. It looks like it would be an