Documentation maybe misleading here,
For *kit commands, the attribute will be used to read the osdistro table
for the osname, osvers, and osarch attributes. If defined, the osname,
osvers, and osarch attributes defined in the osimage table will be ignored.
for this sentence, only apply to *kit commands, like buildkit, rmkit, and
addkit
copycds built the osimage definition, we should not remove those
attributes.
Thanks,
Casandra Qiu
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From: "Lachlan Simpson" <lachlan.simp...@digitalfabulists.org>
To: xCAT-user <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Date: 11/29/2020 10:51 PM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [xcat-user] Confused about osimage/osdistro
Hola,
Running 2.16.1 on CentOS 7.8
Last week I read in the osimage man page that:
osdistroname
The name of the OS distro definition. This attribute can
be used to specify which OS distro to use, instead of using the
osname,osvers,and osarch attributes. For *kit commands, the attribute will
be used to read the osdistro table for the osname, osvers, and osarch
attributes. If defined, the osname, osvers, and osarch attributes defined
in the osimage table will be ignored.
All of our osimage entries had osname, osvers and osarch.
So I removed those values from the latest version of the osimage.
Now, when I try nodeset:
nodeset k181-k183 osimage=centos7.8-x86_64-install-compute
Warning: k181,k182,k183: xnba might be invalid when provisioning
centos7.8-x86_64-install-compute,valid options: "".
For more details see the 'netboot' description in the output of "tabdump -d
noderes".
k181: Error: Unable to identify plugin for this command, check relevant
tables: nodetype.os
k183: Error: Unable to identify plugin for this command, check relevant
tables: nodetype.os
k182: Error: Unable to identify plugin for this command, check relevant
tables: nodetype.os
Error: Failed to generate xnba configurations for some node(s) on
<managementdevice> Check xCAT log file for more details.
First time I've seen that.
Anyway, I put those values back into the osimage, and it works as expected:
chdef -t osimage -o centos7.8-x86_64-install-compute osname=Linux
osvers=centos7.8 osarch=x86_64
nodeset k181-k183 osimage=centos7.8-x86_64-install-compute
k181: install centos7.8-x86_64-compute
k182: install centos7.8-x86_64-compute
k183: install centos7.8-x86_64-compute
I presume that this is either a bug or an error in the documentation?
Unless I've done something else wrong?
Cheers
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