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 <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> 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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