Does the problem occur if vm.nicmodel set to virtio (which also will give you better performance)?
I'll take some of my nodes back to 6.2 to see if it happens to me.
From: Robert Horton <r.hor...@qmul.ac.uk>
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: 06/27/2013 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] xnba provisioning of kvm vms with 2.8.1
Hi Jarrod,
Thanks for getting back to me...
On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 11:23 -0400, Jarrod B Johnson wrote:
> I'd recommend installing xnba-kvm on the hypervisor. It's more
> streamlined anyway (skipping the first of the two step pxe->xnba)....
> Does that help?
Doesn't seem to - I just get
xNBA (PCI 00:03.0) starting execution
then nothing else (That's with netboot to xnba).
>
> I can take a look additionally at trying to reproduce this as well.
>
> nodels vm10 vm.nicmodel
It's undefined - which I guess might be a problem (although the existing
vms all have it empty and still work OK). I've also tried setting it to
"e1000" and mkvm'ing again which doesn't seem to help.
>
> What os is the hypervisor running?
>
It's SL 6.2 with the security and fastbugs applied as of a couple of
weeks ago as a netboot image.
> on the management node: rpm -q xnba-undi
xnba-undi-1.0.3-7.noarch
Rob
>
>
> Inactive hide details for Robert Horton ---06/27/2013 10:49:38
> AM---Hi, I upgraded from 2.7.7 to 2.8.1 yesterday, since which pRobert
> Horton ---06/27/2013 10:49:38 AM---Hi, I upgraded from 2.7.7 to 2.8.1
> yesterday, since which provisioning of
>
> From: Robert Horton <r.hor...@qmul.ac.uk>
> To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: 06/27/2013 10:49 AM
> Subject: [xcat-user] xnba provisioning of kvm vms with 2.8.1
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I upgraded from 2.7.7 to 2.8.1 yesterday, since which provisioning of
> kvm vms using xnba seems to have stopped working. I'm attempting to
> put
> a disk image on them with
>
> nodeset vm10 osimage=rhels6.2-x86_64-install-vm
> rpower vm10 on
>
> If I display the console in wcons it gets xcat/xnba.kpxe via tftp then
> appears to start it - the last thing I see is
>
> PXE->EB: !PXE at 9BF7:0710, entry point at 9BF7:0397
> UDNI code segment 9FB7:07A6, data segment 9C72:2CD8 (623-37kB)
> UDNI device is PCI 00:03.0 type gPXE
> 623kB free base memory after PXE unload
>
> after which nothing happens.
>
> If I change the netboot method to "pxe" if works as expected. I'm
> struggling to think what would have changed - the only thing I can
> think
> of is the way the dhcp leases are getting set up. Here's an example if
> it's any help:
>
> host vm10 {
> dynamic;
> hardware ethernet 42:61:0a:0e:50:15;
> fixed-address 10.14.80.21;
> supersede server.ddns-hostname = "vm10";
> supersede host-name = "vm10";
> if option user-class-identifier = "xNBA" and option
> client-architecture = 00:00 {
> supersede server.always-broadcast = 01;
> supersede server.filename =
>
> "http://${next-server}/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/vm10";;
> } elsif option user-class-identifier = "xNBA" and option
> client-architecture = 00:09 {
> supersede server.filename =
>
> "http://${next-server}/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/vm10.uefi";;
> } elsif option client-architecture = 00:07 {
> supersede server.filename = "xcat/xnba.efi";
> } elsif option client-architecture = 00:00 {
> supersede server.filename = "xcat/xnba.kpxe";
> } else {
> supersede server.filename = "";
> }
> }
>
> Provisioning physical hosts appears to be OK although I've only tried
> one.
>
> I'm not sure what else to try - does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Rob
>
>
>
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