We have a wrapper for installs on our clusters, and currently that's what
it does, if rinstall fails, it rpower boots the guest. We can change our
wrapper to nodeset/rpower easily enough...
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From: Jarrod Johnson <[email protected]>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
Date: 04/01/2015 01:46 PM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] rinstall issue - Was 2.9.1 rpower issue
Rinstall used to just be nodeset and rpower…. Rsetboot was added as a
convenience to force pxe boot…
Rsetboot does however work on esx guests… rsetboot could be made to do kvm
easy enough since vm.bootorder is honored…
I must confess I generally just do the nodeset and then the rpower as
distinct steps rather than having rinstall do it for me… but it would be a
good idea for rinstall to try and warn on failure rather than flip out…
Jarrod Johnson
HPC Systems Management Architect
Lenovo
From: Douglas Myers [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 3:57 PM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] rinstall issue - Was 2.9.1 rpower issue
That does bring up a question, why is rsetboot being called? According to
man page, it's for impi only for now, and it works as expected on the
physical servers I tested on just now, z10148 is a kvm guest though...
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rsetboot?
From: Jarrod Johnson <[email protected]>
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Date: 04/01/2015 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] rinstall issue - Was 2.9.1 rpower
issue
How about rsetboot?
Jarrod Johnson
HPC Systems Management Architect
Lenovo
From: Douglas Myers [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 3:18 PM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Subject: [xcat-user] rinstall issue - Was 2.9.1 rpower issue
spoke too soon
# rinstall z10148
z10148: install sles11.3-x86_64-EI.kvm_new.sles11
Error: z10148: Unable to identify plugin for this command, check relevant
tables: nodehm.power,mgt;nodehm.mgt
Error: rsetboot failure will not continue
still getting this, though rpower is responding on all the various options,
risntall is still bombing. IF I run rpwoer z10148 boot after the error,
the node boots into install and proceeds as normal. below is the node def
fro z10148
# lsdef z10148
Object name: z10148
arch=x86_64
currchain=boot
currstate=install sles11.3-x86_64-EI.kvm_new.sles11
groups=compute,all
initrd=xcat/sles11.3/x86_64/EI.kvm_new.sles11/initrd
installnic=eth0
ip=NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN
kcmdline=quiet autoyast=nfs://z10000e1:/install/autoinst/z10148
install=nfs://z10000e1:/install/sles11.3/x86_64/1 netdevice=eth0
console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
kernel=xcat/sles11.3/x86_64/EI.kvm_new.sles11/linux
mac=42:a4:ac:1f:fd:b4
mgt=kvm
netboot=pxe
nfsserver=z10000e1
nodetype=osi
os=sles11.3
postbootscripts=otherpkgs,500EI_All,520EI_SLES11,599EI_All
postscripts=syslog,syncfiles,remoteshell
power=kvm
primarynic=eth0
profile=EI.kvm_new.sles11
provmethod=install
serialport=0
serialspeed=115200
status=installing
statustime=04-01-2015 19:12:26
vmcpus=2
vmhost=z1vmm99
vmmemory=4096
vmnics=br600=virtio
vmstorage=/gpfs/virtual_test/z10148_rootvg.img
vmstoragemodel=virtio
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Sys-Virt from a legacy requirement, updated to latest SLES version, rpower
is functioni
From: Douglas Myers/Schaumburg/IBM@IBMUS
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <
[email protected]>
Date: 04/01/2015 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] 2.9.1 rpower issue
That was it, we had a custom version of Sys-Virt from a legacy requirement,
updated to latest SLES version, rpower is functioning as expected, thanks
for the quick assist!
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---04/01/2015 11:20:53 AM---I’m looking at the ‘is_active’ calls, and they
are all new to 2.8 and up… It’s probable that Sys::Virt didn’t used to hav
From: Jarrod Johnson <[email protected]>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <
[email protected]>
Date: 04/01/2015 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] 2.9.1 rpower issue
I’m looking at the ‘is_active’ calls, and they are all new to 2.8 and up…
It’s probable that Sys::Virt didn’t used to have it and the update to 2.8
has a requirement to go up on Sys::Virt…
Jarrod Johnson
HPC Systems Management Architect
Lenovo
From: Jarrod Johnson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 2:05 PM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] 2.9.1 rpower issue
I assume this is a KVM guest…
rpm –qa|grep Sys-Virt
Jarrod Johnson
HPC Systems Management Architect
Lenovo
From: Douglas Myers [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 1:42 PM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list ([email protected])
Subject: [xcat-user] 2.9.1 rpower issue
SLES 11.3 MN SLES11.3 KVM hyper xCAT upgraded from 2.7.5 to 2.9.1.
Still working though some of the wrinkles, but have my first show stopper:
#rinstall z10148
z10148: install sles11.3-x86_64-EI.kvm_new.sles11
Error: z10148: Unable to identify plugin for this command, check relevant
tables: nodehm.power,mgt;nodehm.mgt
Error: rsetboot failure will not continue
Which sorta pointed me toward the rpower call and it does seem to be the
current issue:
# rpower z10148 boot
Error: kvm plugin bug, pid 32652, process description: 'xCATd SSL: rpower
to z10148 for root@localhost: kvm instance' with error 'Can't locate object
method "is_active" via package "Sys::Virt::Domain"
at /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/kvm.pm line 2416.' while trying to
fulfill request for the following nodes: z10148
And then hangs command never completes. Looks to be related to "is_active"
call, any of those lines in kvm.pm error out, and any that don't (e.g. on,
softboot, etc) work. rpower does work when calling to hmc and ipmi
servers, just not kvm guests
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