Sebastien One other thing... Are you able to start a vm directly on the host with xe?
On Thursday, February 21, 2013, Carlos Reátegui wrote: > > On Feb 21, 2013, at 7:09 AM, Sebastien Goasguen > <run...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > > > On Feb 21, 2013, at 4:03 PM <x-apple-data-detectors://5>, Carlos > Reátegui <create...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > >> Hi Sebastien > >> How did you make it past the alert state? That is where I got stuck. I > had installed my 12.04 +xapi hosts using kickstart so the root user is > there and I am able to log in with it. > > > > I was able to ssh as root on the hosts but the /root/.ssh directory did > not exist. > > On the hosts I did: ssh-keygen and that created the missing .ssh > (probably could have done mkdir) > > > > restarted the mgt server and the hosts got up. > > > > secondary storage is NFS and that was added with no issue. > > > > primary storage is nfs. I created it by hand with xe sr-create and added > it in the ui using the PresSetup protocol. That worked too (after couple > tries to learn the xe sr related commands). > > > > Now it seems CS thinks I don't have enough RAM on the hosts and that's > why the systemvm don't find anywhere to run. > Ok so sounds like adding the SR ahead of time will do the trick to get > past alert state. In my case it does seem to recognize the memory and CPU > on the hosts so will see what happens. I'll let you know. Hopefully I'll > get a chance this evening. > > One other question, which xapi ppa did you use, stable or unstable? > > > > > -sebastien > > > >> It was suggested that I try to add my NFS SR on the host before adding > to CS but I have not had a chance to try that yet. Is that what you did to > get to this state? > >> > >> Cheers > >> Carlos > >> > >> On Feb 21, 2013, at 6:25 AM, Sebastien Goasguen > >> <run...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I got a basic zone with xen hosts. running 4.0.1. > >>> > >>> My hosts are stuck in 'avoid' state according to the logs at: > >>> http://pastebin.com/Vb1tg6Gq > >>> > >>> And therefore the systemvms don't start. > >>> > >>> I tried to restart the mgt server but that did not do anything. > >>> > >>> -sebastien > > >