[one-users] [Beta 3.0][Error Mapping Floppy Disk]

[Carlos Martín Sánchez]

Hi,

It looks like a bug, we've opened a ticket [1].

Thanks for the feedback!

[1] http://dev.opennebula.org/issues/767

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Carlos Martín, MSc
Project Major Contributor
OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing
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On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Anoj Pillai <anojsp at gmail.com> wrote:

> I  have a working instance of Openebula 3.0 (2.9.80) on Ubuntu Server 11.04
> with KVM
>
> The following error occurs during the deployment of a VM  based on a
> virtual machine template with a floppy disk image mapped
>
> [VMM][I]: Generating deployment file: /srv/cloud/one/var/20/deployment.0
> [VMM][I]: Command execution fail: 'if [ -x "/var/tmp/one/vmm/kvm/deploy" ];
> then /var/tmp/one/vmm/kvm/deploy /srv/cloud/one/var//20/images/deployment.0
> node1 20 node1; else                              exit 42; fi'
> [VMM][I]: error: Failed to create domain from
> /srv/cloud/one/var//20/images/deployment.0
> [VMM][I]: error: internal error Invalid harddisk device name: fda
> Here is how the floppy disk was defined in the vm template.
>
> DISK=[
>   BUS=fdc,
>   CLONE=no,
>   SOURCE=/srv/cloud/one/iso/virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd,
>   TARGET=fda,
>   TYPE=floppy ]
> The device node in deployment file generated is ..
>
>                 <disk type='file' device='disk'>
>                         <source
> file='/srv/cloud/one/var//20/images/disk.1'/>
>                         <target dev='fda' bus='fdc'/>
>                         <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='default'/>
>                 </disk>
> I couldnt help notice the device attribute is set as disk despite the DISK
> type being set as floppy in vm template..
>
> I was able to work around the issue passing the fdc configuration using RAW
> DATA (below)
>
> RAW=[
>   DATA="<devices><sound model='ich6'/> <disk type='file'
> device='floppy'><driver name='qemu' type='raw'/><source
> file='/srv/cloud/one/iso/virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd'/><target dev='fda'
> bus='fdc'/><address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0'
> unit='0'/></disk><controller type='fdc' index='0'/></devices>",
>   TYPE=KVM ]
>
> However by doing so i loose all the Image management benefits offerered by
> One.. Is there a different approach i should use to try and map the floppy
> disk image in the VM template ?
>
> Thanks
> Anjoe
>
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