Sure, I'll make a point of it in the devcloud-kvm wiki, and hopefully these messages will serve as a reminder. I hope those changes didn't slow you down too much.
Anyone developing with KVM against master needs to upgrade their system VM template! On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Dave Cahill <dcah...@midokura.com> wrote: > Hi Marcus, > > With the recent KVM patchdisk changes in master, the old System VM template > doesn't seem to create the /dev/vport0p1 interface correctly, so it doesn't > get information on that port, and doesn't bring up the systemVM interfaces. > I'm guessing this is explained by this commit comment [1]: > > "if system vm has proper driver it > will create a /dev/vport0p1 device within the VM. We will be updating the > system VM in 4.2/5.0 and will support this." > > To fix this, we removed our existing System VM template and downloaded the > jenkins template you mention above, using cloud-install-sys-tmplt. > > I think devs might be confused when they update to this point (system VM > interfaces mysteriously fail to come up), because changing the qcow2 in dev > generally only happens when doing a full fresh install. I wonder what we > can do to make it obvious to everyone - maybe a reminder mail to the list, > changing the recommended template link in docs etc? > > Kudos on tackling the patchdisk problem by the way, I think this new system > will be a lot easier for new devs to understand. :) > > Thanks, > Dave. > > > [1] > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-cloudstack.git;a=commit;h=d81f7156dca5000e0e14a4a402c4e03a86ebbe2d > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Rohit Yadav <bhais...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Awesome, thanks Marcus! >> >> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > The system vm template came from jenkins at >> > http://jenkins.cloudstack.org/job/build-systemvm-master/, and the >> > devcloud-kvm link is listed on the devcloud-kvm wiki. >> > >> > On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Prasanna Santhanam <t...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 01:29:24AM -0500, Marcus Sorensen wrote: >> >>> devcloud-kvm has been upgraded to CentOS 6.4, has new master systemvm >> >>> template preinstalled. Still getting intermittent default gateway >> >>> rules with the new systemvm (there's a bug in for it, seems to be >> >>> non-hypervisor specific) but everything seems to work :-) >> >> >> >> Great! Thanks for keeping it up to date. Is the new template published >> >> anywhere? I will use it for the devcloud-kvm CI I'm looking to set up, >> >> to save us from the blockers :) >> >> >> >> PS: Just testing out the older devcloud-ci on jenkins past few days. >> >> So we'll have both basic and advanced soon! >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Prasanna., >>
