Re: [xcat-user] VM discovery issue

[Bin XA Xu]

Hi Sandra,

 

    What's your virtualization hypervisor?  and What's your real purpose to discover a VM guest?

 

    xCAT could provide simple VM management capability, there is not required to discover the VM, check below for details:

    https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/virtual_machines/manage_vms.html

 

Bin Xu

HPC Software Development
Software Defined Infrastructure, IBM Systems

Phone: 86-010-82454067

E-mail: bx...@cn.ibm.com

 

 

----- Original message -----
From: Sandra Maksimovic <sandra.maksimo...@mcri.edu.au>
To: "'xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net'" <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc:
Subject: [xcat-user] VM discovery issue
Date: Fri, Mar 22, 2019 7:20 AM
 

Hi there,

 

I have been successfully deploying CentOS7 to a VM with a defined MAC address up until recently. The problem now is that discovery fails due to the following message:

 

xcat.genesis.minixcatd: The request is processing by xCAT master...

xcat.genesis.minixcatd: The request is already processed by xCAT master, but not matched.

xcat.genesis.dodiscovery: Beginning echo information to discovery packet file...

Could no open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory

Could no open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory

xcat.genesis.dodiscovery: Discovery packet file is ready.

xcat.genesis.dodiscovery: Sending the discovery packet to xCAT (10.40.115.100:3001)...

xcat.genesis.dodiscovery: Sleeping 5 seconds...

 

Obviously I don’t require ipmi for a VM. I’ve searched through the xCAT tables to remove all ipmi/bmcsetup references related to this node – I’ve even rebuilt the xCAT management node to make doubly sure that all tables were empty in order to add back only the minimal information required. Is there something more specific I should be looking at removing from the definitions below?

 

# lsdef mgt

Object name: mgt

    authdomain=mcri.edu.au

    chain=standby

    domaintype=activedirectory

    groups=mgt,vm

    ip=<removed>

    mac=<removed>

    netboot=pxe

    nfsdir=/install

    nfsserver=xcat

    nicaliases.eth0=mgt mail time

    nicaliases.eth1=mgt-pub

    nicaliases.eth2=mgt-data

    nichostnamesuffixes.eth0=-mgmt

    nichostnamesuffixes.eth1=-pub

    nichostnamesuffixes.eth2=-data

    nicips.eth0=<removed>

    nicips.eth1=<removed>

    nicips.eth2=<removed>

    nicnetworks.eth0=Management

    nicnetworks.eth1=Pub13Net

    nicnetworks.eth2=Data

    nictypes.eth0=Ethernet

    nictypes.eth1=Ethernet

    nictypes.eth2=Ethernet

    otherinterfaces=mgt-pub: <removed>,mgt-data: <removed>

    ou=<removed>

    postbootscripts=otherpkgs

    postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp,confignics

    routenames=default13NetRoute

    servicenode=xcat

 

# lsdef -t group vm

Object name: vm

    chain=standby

    members=mgt

xCAT version 2.14.5.

Thanks,

Sandra Maksimovic
Systems Administrator
Information Technology
 
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
The Royal Children's Hospital, 50 Flemington Road
Parkville, Victoria 3052 Australia
 
T   +61 3 8341 6498
E   sandra.maksimo...@mcri.edu.au
W  mcri.edu.au

 

 

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