[one-users] KVM virtual machine with two OS images problem

[Jaime Melis]

Hello Virginia,

Have you tried using TARGET = hda and TARGET = hdb?

cheers,
Jaime


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Virginia Martín-Rubio Pascual <
virginia.martinrubio at rediris.es> wrote:

> Hi Jaime,
>
> Yes, this time you're totally right  :) I have two TYPE=OS images, both of
> them have been created from vmdk files, and I want to create a new KVM
> virtual machine from these two images.
>
> I'm using OpenNebula 3.4 and it doesn't allow to configure two TYPE=OS
> images in the same template, so I created a VM template with one OS type
> image and one DATABLOCK type image, but I had some problems with the
> virtual machine boot ("kernel panic- not syncing: Attempted to kill
> init!")... So I've added another image (TYPE=CDROM with the boot.iso of the
> operating system) to the template to be able to boot the virtual machine
> and rescue the old installed system. This works for me but the partition
> names are different than the original virtual machine. I've tried to
> specify them in the TARGET attributes but it doesn't work:
>
> ...
> DISK=[
>   BUS="virtio",
>   DRIVER="raw",
>   IMAGE="wms01_raw",
>   IMAGE_UNAME="oneadmin",
>   TARGET="sda" ]
> DISK=[
>   BUS="virtio",
>   DRIVER="raw",
>   IMAGE="wms01_1_raw",
>   IMAGE_UNAME="oneadmin",
>   TARGET="sdb" ]
> DISK=[
>   BUS="virtio",
>   IMAGE="SL6.3_iso",
>   IMAGE_UNAME="oneadmin",
>   TARGET="sdc" ]
>
> Cheers,
> Virginia.
>
> El 11/12/2012, a las 11:01, Jaime Melis escribió:
>
> Hello Virginia,
>
> We've been discussing about your problem, and apparently it has got
> nothing to do with what I replied, sorry about that!
>
> So, the problem is -if I understood it correctly this time- that you have
> two TYPE = OS images, and earlier versions of OpenNebula don't allow that.
> What OpenNebula version are you using?
>
> You could try changing one of the images to TYPE = DATABLOCK, with
> oneimage chtype.
>
> cheers,
> Jaime
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Jaime Melis <jmelis at opennebula.org>wrote:
>
>> Hello Virginia,
>>
>> I've never migrated a VMware VM to KVM in the way you have just
>> described, but I was wondering, have you tried converting the images to
>> another format (RAW for instance) with "qemu-img convert"? Maybe it will
>> detect that it's the same disk and merge both vmdks into a single file...
>>
>> cheers,
>> Jaime
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Virginia Martín-Rubio Pascual <
>> virginia.martinrubio at rediris.es> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've migrated successfully some VMware virtual machines to KVM using my
>>> OpenNebula front-end, following these steps:
>>>
>>> - Adding the .vmdk file to the OpenNebula datastore as an OS image .
>>> - Creating the VM template following the .vmx file information.
>>> - Instantiating the template.
>>>
>>> But I've found a problem with a virtual machine with two .vmdk files
>>> (two different partitions configured with LVM) because OpenNebula only lets
>>> me add one OS image in the same virtual machine template...
>>>
>>> Does anyone have already this problem? Any idea about a possible
>>> solution?
>>>
>>> Thanks in Advance,
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Virginia Martín-Rubio.
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jaime Melis
>> Project Engineer
>> OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing
>> www.OpenNebula.org | jmelis at opennebula.org
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Jaime Melis
> Project Engineer
> OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing
> www.OpenNebula.org | jmelis at opennebula.org
>
>
>


-- 
Jaime Melis
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing
www.OpenNebula.org | jmelis at opennebula.org
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