Hi Chris, are you able to go to the cli and retrieve the param-list for this VM? i think this may be due to VIRIDIAN flag being set to true.
xe vm-param-list uuid=<uuid of vm> On 4 April 2014 10:21, chris snow <chsnow...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have debian wheezy running xen host inside a virtualbox guest, so > the xen host doesn't have HVM. > > I am using a third party application (cloudstack) communicating with > xen using xapi. I'm trying to create a VM using Ubuntu 12.04 > installation ISO [1], but have set the OS type to 'Other (32 bit) so > that xen would not use HVM, but I receive the error VM_HVM_REQUIRED. > > I have captured the VM.create request here: > https://gist.github.com/snowch/9957480 and also the VM.start_on > response here: https://gist.github.com/snowch/9957480 > > I had originally posted this question to the cloudstack mailing list, > but I now think the question is more relevant to this list because it > is actually a question about the xen api. > > Question 1: > > Is my understanding correct that I should be able to create a VM on a > non HVM Xen host using the Ubuntu install ISO? > > Question 2: > > If the answer to Q1 is 'yes', is there anything that stands out in the > VM.start request that is telling Xen that the vm must have HVM support > which is then telling xen to fail the request? It seems that > somewhere in the xapi call stack for VM.start_on, the method > VM.get_HVM_boot_policy is getting called and returning that hvm is > required. > > Many thanks! > > Chris > > --- > [1] http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04.4-server-i386.iso > [2] > https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/blob/master/ocaml/xapi/xapi_vm_helpers.ml#L488 > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-api mailing list > Xen-api@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-api >
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