I don't see " failing to get physical interface from bridge" in agent.log.
I am pasting the first few lines from the agent.log before attempt was made to start the system vms: 2013-01-28 22:04:37,354 INFO [utils.component.ComponentLocator] (main:null) Unable to find components.xml 2013-01-28 22:04:37,356 INFO [utils.component.ComponentLocator] (main:null) Skipping configuration using components.xml 2013-01-28 22:04:37,356 INFO [cloud.agent.AgentShell] (main:null) Implementation Version is 4.1.0.20130128045141 2013-01-28 22:04:37,356 INFO [cloud.agent.AgentShell] (main:null) agent.properties found at /etc/cloud/agent/agent.properties 2013-01-28 22:04:37,358 INFO [cloud.agent.AgentShell] (main:null) Defaulting to using properties file for storage 2013-01-28 22:04:37,360 INFO [cloud.agent.AgentShell] (main:null) Defaulting to the constant time backoff algorithm 2013-01-28 22:04:37,430 INFO [cloud.agent.Agent] (main:null) id is 2013-01-28 22:04:37,445 ERROR [cloud.resource.ServerResourceBase] (main:null) Nics are not configured! 2013-01-28 22:04:37,450 INFO [cloud.resource.ServerResourceBase] (main:null) Designating private to be nic cloudbr0 2013-01-28 22:04:37,547 INFO [resource.virtualnetwork.VirtualRoutingResource] (main:null) VirtualRoutingResource _scriptDir to use: scripts/network/domr/kvm 2013-01-28 22:04:38,482 INFO [kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource] (main:null) No libvirt.vif.driver specififed. Defaults to BridgeVifDriver. 2013-01-28 22:04:38,545 INFO [cloud.agent.Agent] (main:null) Agent [id = new : type = LibvirtComputingResource : zone = 1 : pod = 1 : workers = 5 : host = 10.223.57.2 : port = 8250 2013-01-28 22:04:38,558 INFO [utils.nio.NioClient] (Agent-Selector:null) Connecting to 10.223.57.2:8250 2013-01-28 22:04:38,796 INFO [utils.nio.NioClient] (Agent-Selector:null) SSL: Handshake done 2013-01-28 22:04:39,239 INFO [cloud.serializer.GsonHelper] (Agent-Handler-1:null) Default Builder inited. 2013-01-28 22:04:39,294 INFO [cloud.agent.Agent] (Agent-Handler-2:null) Proccess agent startup answer, agent id = 0 2013-01-28 22:04:39,294 INFO [cloud.agent.Agent] (Agent-Handler-2:null) Set agent id 0 2013-01-28 22:04:39,300 INFO [cloud.agent.Agent] (Agent-Handler-2:null) Startup Response Received: agent id = 0 2013-01-28 22:04:39,570 INFO [cloud.agent.Agent] (agentRequest-Handler-4:null) Proccess agent ready command, agent id = 1 2013-01-28 22:04:39,570 INFO [cloud.agent.Agent] (agentRequest-Handler-4:null) Set agent id 1 2013-01-28 22:04:39,571 INFO [cloud.agent.Agent] (agentRequest-Handler-4:null) Ready command is processed: agent id = 1 2013-01-28 22:04:39,667 INFO [cloud.agent.Agent] (agentRequest-Handler-5:null) Proccess agent ready command, agent id = 1 2013-01-28 22:04:39,667 INFO [cloud.agent.Agent] (agentRequest-Handler-5:null) Set agent id 1 2013-01-28 22:04:39,667 INFO [cloud.agent.Agent] (agentRequest-Handler-5:null) Ready command is processed: agent id = 1 2013-01-28 22:07:08,861 WARN [kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource] (agentRequest-Handler-1:null) Exception com.cloud.exception.InternalErrorException: Failed to create vnet 1363: Set name-type for VLAN subsystem. Should be visible in /proc/net/vlan/configERROR: trying to add VLAN #1363 to IF -:br-1363:- error: No such deviceFailed to create vlan 1363 on pif: br-1363. at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.BridgeVifDriver.createVnet(BridgeVifDriver.java:170) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.BridgeVifDriver.createVlanBr(BridgeVifDriver.java:156) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.BridgeVifDriver.plug(BridgeVifDriver.java:119) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.createVif(LibvirtComputingResource.java:3301) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.createVifs(LibvirtComputingResource.java:3069) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.execute(LibvirtComputingResource.java:3093) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.executeRequest(LibvirtComputingResource.java:1174) at com.cloud.agent.Agent.processRequest(Agent.java:525) at com.cloud.agent.Agent$AgentRequestHandler.doTask(Agent.java:852) at com.cloud.utils.nio.Task.run(Task.java:83) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679) -Thanks Sangeetha -----Original Message----- From: Marcus Sorensen [mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 4:09 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Not able to start System Vms on KVM host Looking at the ipv6 branch... do you see a "failing to get physical interface from bridge" in your agent log? On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote: > What sort of system is this? I'm just wondering when to expect 'em' > type devices. This is going to get ugly if we can't anticipate a > reasonable naming convention for physical nics. > > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Sangeetha Hariharan > <sangeetha.hariha...@citrix.com> wrote: >> em1