Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certain modules (fsp.pm, hmc.pm and ivm.pm) on restart

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
I tried doing it but still no luck: couldn't find the kernel file matched 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 in /install/netboot/centos6/x86_64/kvm-test/rootimg/boot at ./genimage line 62. I listed that directory and...there's nothing inside: [root@xcat centos]# ls /install/netboot/centos6/x86_64/kvm-test/

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certain modules (fsp.pm, hmc.pm and ivm.pm) on restart

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
Hmm, weird! But i guess ill try it ;o)! Thanks, Luis Miguel Silva On Jul 28, 2011, at 9:02 PM, "heince.nvg" wrote: > sorry for my poor english :p > > i used kvmtest instead of kvm as my profile name and its working. > > Regards, > Heince > > On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 20:09 -0600, Luis Miguel Sil

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certain modules (fsp.pm, hmc.pm and ivm.pm) on restart

2011-07-28 Thread heince.nvg
sorry for my poor english :p i used kvmtest instead of kvm as my profile name and its working. Regards, Heince On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 20:09 -0600, Luis Miguel Silva wrote: > I'm sorry, i didnt catch that :o). > > What do you mean by "it's fail but using different profile name > (kvmtest) is work

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains vm already exists

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
Found the problem! It was a bug in the Moab version i'm using... It is triggering multiple processes to create a single VM (every couple of second it forks another one)! So...mystery solved! :o) On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Luis Miguel Silva wrote: > Yes, i did! There was only lint inside :

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certain modules (fsp.pm, hmc.pm and ivm.pm) on restart

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
I'm sorry, i didnt catch that :o). What do you mean by "it's fail but using different profile name (kvmtest) is working"?? Thanks! Luis On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:02 PM, heince.nvg wrote: > I also got 'cat: write error: Broken pipe' , but it's working. > > for netbooting kvm, i just tested using

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains vm already exists

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
Yes, i did! There was only lint inside :oP... Now seriously, i don't know what is going on but i'm starting to suspect the problem is in our side (and not xCAT)... Although i, supposedly, am running the exact same commands i issue to xCAT and, when i run them manually, everything works as expecte

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certain modules (fsp.pm, hmc.pm and ivm.pm) on restart

2011-07-28 Thread heince.nvg
I also got 'cat: write error: Broken pipe' , but it's working. for netbooting kvm, i just tested using kvm profile name, it's fail but using different profile name (kvmtest) is working. Regards, Heince On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 13:38 -0600, Luis Miguel Silva wrote: > Heince, > > Here's whats happen

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains vm already exists

2011-07-28 Thread Egan Ford
Did you check your pockets? On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Luis Miguel Silva wrote: > Yes! Not there. > Im looking into that with Jonathan D right now! > > Luis Miguel Silva > > On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:57 PM, Egan Ford wrote: > >> Did you check vcenter? >> >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Lui

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains vm already exists

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
Yes! Not there. Im looking into that with Jonathan D right now! Luis Miguel Silva On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:57 PM, Egan Ford wrote: > Did you check vcenter? > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Luis Miguel Silva > wrote: >> I'm running into some trouble where xCAT tells me the VM already >> exist

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains vm already exists

2011-07-28 Thread Egan Ford
Did you check vcenter? On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Luis Miguel Silva wrote: > I'm running into some trouble where xCAT tells me the VM already > exists when i can "mkvm": > "Virtual Machine already exists" > > I checked all my tables and the vm does NOT exist anywhere on them AND > i even re

[xcat-user] xCAT complains vm already exists

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
I'm running into some trouble where xCAT tells me the VM already exists when i can "mkvm": "Virtual Machine already exists" I checked all my tables and the vm does NOT exist anywhere on them AND i even rebooted all my hypervisors (which are booting vmware esxi stateless - so they would NOT keep an

Re: [xcat-user] Unable to determine or reasonably guess the image server for vm1

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
Oh k, we fixed this, but i just wanted to share the community what the problem was! So, first of all, if we use "xnba" instead of "pxe" as the bootloader, the problem goes away! If we want to use pxe, then the problem happens if we do NOT call "makedns" prior to running "nodeset netboot". I hope

[xcat-user] Unable to determine or reasonably guess the image server for vm1

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
Dear all, I'm running into some trouble while trying to netboot a VM: [root@xcat moab]# nodeset vm1 netboot vm1: netboot centos6-x86_64-compute Error: xcat.core.cloud: Unable to determine or reasonably guess the image server for vm1 [root@xcat moab]# [root@xcat moab]# lsdef vm1 Object name: vm1

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certain modules (fsp.pm, hmc.pm and ivm.pm) on restart

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
Heince, Here's whats happening in my environment (after i copied the dracut directory and pkglists from rh!). When i try to genimage the compute profile: packimage -o centos5.2 -p compute -a x86_64 [root@xcat centos]# ./genimage -i eth0 -n e1000,bnx2 -o centos6 -p compute yum -y -c /tmp/genimag

Re: [xcat-user] chain through a stateless netboot osimage?

2011-07-28 Thread Garrick Staples
Your suggestion was exactly what I needed. Thanks. I added stunnel and nextdestiny to the image and it worked perfectly. The only change I had to make was to change "xcatd" to "XCAT" where stunnel was looking at /proc/cmdline. On 07/28/2011 10:29 AM, Garrick Staples wrote: > Heh, I got it to wor

[xcat-user] xCAT 2.6, trouble installing esxi 4.1-x86_64-base

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
Dear all, I'm running xCAT 2.6 on a CentOS 6 system and i'm having some trouble deploying esxi 4.1 on my compute nodes. Netbooting esxi 4.1 works just fine, but when i tried to install it seems to hang while trying to load "mod.tgz". Has anybody of you ever seen this error and know how i can fix

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certain modules (fsp.pm, hmc.pm and ivm.pm) on restart

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
Hmm, interesting! Thanks for the tip! ;o)) Luis Miguel Silva On Jul 28, 2011, at 12:01 PM, "heince.nvg" wrote: > haha strange, i didn't have that warnings. > > - i have no problem installing centos6 kvm because my server support it, > bridging also no issue > - centos6 netboot, this is what

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certain modules (fsp.pm, hmc.pm and ivm.pm) on restart

2011-07-28 Thread heince.nvg
haha strange, i didn't have that warnings. - i have no problem installing centos6 kvm because my server support it, bridging also no issue - centos6 netboot, this is what i do to make it work: * copy rhel6 pkglist to centos * copy dracut folder on rh folder to centos folder * i think the p

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certain modules (fsp.pm, hmc.pm and ivm.pm) on restart

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
I have no problem with the warnings! :o) Just wanted to report what is happening to check if it is normal or not! ;o) I now understand it is not critical! Thanks, Luis On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Lissa Valletta wrote: > If you want to stop the warning,  take each one  and for example: > m

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certain modules (fsp.pm, hmc.pm and ivm.pm) on restart

2011-07-28 Thread Lissa Valletta
If you want to stop the warning, take each one and for example: mv /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/fsp.pm /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/fsp.pm.save You don't need them for x-series. Lissa K. Valletta 2-3/T12 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 From: Luis Miguel Silva To: xCAT

Re: [xcat-user] chain through a stateless netboot osimage?

2011-07-28 Thread Garrick Staples
Heh, I got it to work by hacking a "next" command into the port 3002 installmonitor and using "updateflag.awk $XCAT 3002 next". It's not the right way to do it, but it allowed me to move forward and get all of the pieces together. I'll try again using stunnel. On 07/28/2011 01:46 AM, Xiao Peng Wa

[xcat-user] Chain table confusion

2011-07-28 Thread Dave Barry
Hi all, I'm having a difficult time understanding how the chain table comes into play and when each piece is read / written to. When doing a nodeset node rumcmd=something, I would expect it to change chain.chain to runcmd=something, keep chain.currstate and chain.currchain to whatever it's curren

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certain modules (fsp.pm, hmc.pm and ivm.pm) on restart

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
By the way, regarding the modules, i have them too! (and i'm using the same snapshot you are :o)). The problem is that xCAT complains about them at start up ;o). (service xcatd restart) Thanks! Luis On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Luis Miguel Silva wrote: > Heince, > > Thanks! > > On an unrela

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certain modules (fsp.pm, hmc.pm and ivm.pm) on restart

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
Heince, Thanks! On an unrelated topic...how well is it working for you? (CentOS 6 + xCAT 2.6)? According to my tests, i'm having trouble running: - installing centos6 kvm -> did not have kvm support! :o( [the kvm modules were there but were not loaded and it didnt set up a bridge interface for m

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certain modules (fsp.pm, hmc.pm and ivm.pm) on restart

2011-07-28 Thread heince.nvg
Hi Luis :o) i'm also using CentOS 6, i have those modules using xCAT-server-2.6.2-snap201107192304 Regards, Heince On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 08:39 -0600, Luis Miguel Silva wrote: > Thank you! > > Luis Miguel Silva > > On Jul 28, 2011, at 2:02 AM, Xiao Peng Wang wrote: > > > > > It's a problem

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certain modules (fsp.pm, hmc.pm and ivm.pm) on restart

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
Thank you! Luis Miguel Silva On Jul 28, 2011, at 2:02 AM, Xiao Peng Wang wrote: > It's a problem for Centos6 and rh6. But these perl modules are not needed for > x86/x86_64 system. You can ignore it as a message error. > > Thanks > Best Regards > --

Re: [xcat-user] dx360 M3 won't boot to SAS hd after PXE install with RHELS6

2011-07-28 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
I also had the same issue on some hp hardware and using pxe instead of xnba fixed it! :o) Luis Miguel Silva On Jul 28, 2011, at 3:27 AM, Heince Kurniawan wrote: > I also encountered similar issue, if you using pxelinux.0 from syslinux-3.86 > maybe its the same issue. > I test it on IBM x3650

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certain modules (fsp.pm, hmc.pm and ivm.pm) on restart

2011-07-28 Thread Lissa Valletta
Opened defect 3380912 to fix before we release. Lissa K. Valletta 2-3/T12 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 From: Xiao Peng Wang To: xCAT Users Mailing list Cc: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 07/28/2011 04:08 AM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certai

Re: [xcat-user] dx360 M3 won't boot to SAS hd after PXE install with RHELS6

2011-07-28 Thread Heince Kurniawan
I also encountered similar issue, if you using pxelinux.0 from syslinux-3.86 maybe its the same issue. I test it on IBM x3650 M3 using CentOS6.0 x86_64 - pxe installation finish but can't boot to disk during pxe boot - manually select boot device to disk is working - pxe boot looped several times ,

Re: [xcat-user] chain through a stateless netboot osimage?

2011-07-28 Thread Xiao Peng Wang
You should make the 'nextdestiny' was run to change the chain list in the chain table. You can tabdump chain table to see whether it has happened to move the 'install' into the currstate. The nextdestiny cannot work without the help of stunnel, refer to the /etc/init.d/S11stunnel in the nbfs.gz Th

Re: [xcat-user] dx360 M3 won't boot to SAS hd after PXE install with RHELS6

2011-07-28 Thread Xiao Peng Wang
Did you meant that set the harddisk as the first boot order also did not work? Could you try to use the pxe to replace the xnba as the boot load? netboot=pxe Thanks Best Regards -- Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) IBM China System Technology

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT complains about certain modules (fsp.pm, hmc.pm and ivm.pm) on restart

2011-07-28 Thread Xiao Peng Wang
It's a problem for Centos6 and rh6. But these perl modules are not needed for x86/x86_64 system. You can ignore it as a message error. Thanks Best Regards -- Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Tel: 86-10

Re: [xcat-user] serial console not working - inittab overwritten

2011-07-28 Thread Xiao Peng Wang
For the statefull installation, the console in the /etc/inittab should be configured by the kernel parameters. Show it from /proc/cmdline. If removing the postbootscripts will ignore this issue, you need to look into the postbootscripts to see what happens in it. # cat /proc/cmdline ro root=