It should have dhcped in the first place either way..  I find it odd that
the update would do that unless xnba-undi changes proved problematic for
qemu in 6.2.  Similar thoughts on xnba-kvm, I am unsure if the current
version was tested with 6.2.

Looks like it will be a while before I can finish pulling down 6.2....  If
you have some testbed where you can see if the problem does not occur in
6.4 vintage of qemu, you may be able to see if that's related before I have
6.2 downloaded...


From:   Robert Horton <[email protected]>
To:     xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
Date:   06/27/2013 02:05 PM
Subject:        Re: [xcat-user] xnba provisioning of kvm vms with 2.8.1



Still the same with nicmodel set to virtio (assuming the rmvm and mkvm is
sufficient to propagate it).

It's possibly worth noting that the vm doesn't even make a dhcp request
with xnba-kvm in either case (although perhaps that's intentional).

Rob

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From: "Jarrod B Johnson" <[email protected]>
To: "xCAT Users Mailing list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, 27 June, 2013 5:02:28 PM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] xnba provisioning of kvm vms with 2.8.1




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.

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11:52:32 AM---Hi Jarrod, Thanks for getting back to me...

From: Robert Horton <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
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 <[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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