My qemu had been upgraded to 0.12.1.2-2.355 which is the same as 6.4 uses so I don't think that's the problem.
It's possibly of interest that it works with xnba if I use the efi firmware from http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/OVMF (although that creates some different problems, but I digress). I'm struggling to see what the problem could be - neither xnba-undi nor any of the qemu packages were touched by the upgrade. The dhcp leases look OK and both uEFI and BOIS physical machines seem to provision OK with them. I could probably spin up a 6.4 hypervisor if you think that would help, my other thought was to get some debug output from the dhcp server to check that's behaving as expected. I'll give that a go next week. Rob On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 14:23 -0400, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: > 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... > Inactive hide details for Robert Horton ---06/27/2013 02:05:21 > PM---Still the same with nicmodel set to virtio (assuming the rmRobert > Horton ---06/27/2013 02:05:21 PM---Still the same with nicmodel set to > virtio (assuming the rmvm and mkvm is sufficient to propagate it > > 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 > > ----- Original Message ----- > 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. > > Inactive hide details for Robert Horton ---06/27/2013 11:52:32 AM---Hi > Jarrod, Thanks for getting back to me...Robert Horton ---06/27/2013 > 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
