[one-users] Video RAM settings for VMware
Tino Vazquez
tinova at opennebula.org
Wed Oct 17 05:39:38 PDT 2012
Hi Marcin,
comments interspersed,
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Marcin Jarzab <mj at agh.edu.pl> wrote:
> Tino,
>
> Applying raw 'devices' section creates two XML devices tags. This due the
> implementation of 'core' vmware driver. :-)
That is ok.
> I'm not sure about the exact problem but i'm getting following error:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> on Oct 15 09:37:43 2012 [LCM][I]: New VM state is BOOT
> Mon Oct 15 09:37:43 2012 [VMM][I]: Generating deployment file:
> /var/lib/one/52/deployment.0
> Mon Oct 15 09:37:43 2012 [VMM][I]: ExitCode: 0
> Mon Oct 15 09:37:43 2012 [VMM][I]: Successfully execute network driver
> operation: pre.
> Mon Oct 15 09:37:48 2012 [VMM][I]: Command execution fail:
> /var/lib/one/remotes/vmm/vmware/deploy /var/lib/one/52/deployment.0
> 172.17.70.38 52 172.17.70.38
> Mon Oct 15 09:37:48 2012 [VMM][E]: deploy: Error executing: virsh -c
> 'esx://172.17.70.38/?no_verify=1&auto_answer=1' define
> /var/lib/one/52/deployment.0 err: ExitCode: 1
> Mon Oct 15 09:37:48 2012 [VMM][I]: out:
> Mon Oct 15 09:37:48 2012 [VMM][I]: error: Failed to define domain from
> /var/lib/one/52/deployment.0
> Mon Oct 15 09:37:48 2012 [VMM][I]: error: internal error Unknown driver name
> 'file'
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
This may be related to bad default values. Could you check your
/etc/one/vmm_exec/vmm_exec_vmware.conf, and comment or erase the
following line
DISK = [ DRIVER = file ]
Regards,
-Tino
> The driver 'file" is not related to vga anyway.
>
> CPU="2"
> DISK=[
> BUS="scsi",
> IMAGE="Win2K8r2-TD-Image-v4",
> IMAGE_UNAME="oneadmin",
> TARGET="sda" ]
> GRAPHICS=[
> LISTEN="0.0.0.0",
> TYPE="vnc" ]
> MEMORY="3024"
> NAME="TD-Win2K8r2-VM-Template-vmxnet3"
> NIC=[
> MODEL="vmxnet3",
> NETWORK="SBvNet-td-reserved1-210_220",
> NETWORK_UNAME="oneadmin" ]
> OS=[
> ARCH="i686" ]
> RAW=[
> DATA="<devices><video><model type='vmvga'
> vram='16384000'/></video></devices>",
> TYPE="vmware" ]
> TEMPLATE_ID="7"
> VCPU="2"
>
>
> Libvirt domain config:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> <domain type='vmware'>
> <name>one-52</name>
> <vcpu>2</vcpu>
> <memory>3096576</memory>
> <os>
> <type arch='i686'>hvm</type>
> </os>
> <devices>
> <disk type='file' device='disk'>
> <source file='[0] 52/disk.0/disk.vmdk'/>
> <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>
> <driver name='file'/>
> </disk>
> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
> <source file='[0] 52/disk.1.iso'/>
> <target dev='hdb'/>
> <readonly/>
> </disk>
> <interface type='bridge'>
> <source bridge='usr-dsrg-td-reserved1'/>
> <mac address='02:00:ac:11:4d:d4'/>
> <model type='vmxnet3'/>
> </interface>
> <graphics type='vnc' listen='0.0.0.0' port='5952'/>
> </devices>
> <devices><video><model type='vmvga'
> vram='16384000'/></video></devices>
> </domain>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hi,
>
> The translation is not performed by a script but rather the OpenNebula
> core. What you are looking for resides in
> src/vmm/LibVirtDriverVMware.cc in the source core.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Tino
>
> --
> Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
> Project Engineer
> OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
> www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Marcin Jarzab <mj at agh.edu.pl> wrote:
>
> Tino,
>
> Could you provide the information about the ONE script which is responsible
> for translation of the input data
> and creation of domain xml file? In case of problem I want to get into the
> source code:-)
>
> Hi Marcin,
>
> The RAW attribute will instruct OpenNebula to pass the information
> down to libvirt, and this is true also for the VMware drivers. I
> haven't tried this myself, but I think libvrit should pass this
> correctly to the ESX, and thus it should work. I would be interested
> in knowing if you succeeded with a template including the RAW
> attribute you pasted, changing KVM for VMWARE.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Tino
>
> --
> Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
> Project Engineer
> OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
> www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Marcin Jarzab<mj at agh.edu.pl> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm getting such an error:
>
> error: Failed to start domain one-41
> Tue Sep 25 15:45:27 2012 [VMM][I]: error: internal error Could not start
> domain: GenericVmConfigFault - Insufficient video RAM. The maximum
> resolution of the virtual machine will be limited to 1176x885. To use the
> configured maximum resolution of 2560x1600, increase the amount of video
> RAM
> allocated to this virtual machine by setting svga.vramSize="16384000" in
> the
> virtual machine's configuration file.
>
>
> In "google" (http://www.digipedia.pl/usenet/thread/11667/7791/) I found
> sth.
> about the RAW section:
>
> RAW = [ TYPE="KVM", DATA="<video><model type='cirrus' vram='16384'
> heads='1'/><address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02'
> function='0x0'/></video>"]
>
> Does it work for vmware?
>
> --
> Ph.D. Eng. Marcin Jarzab
> mj at agh.edu.pl
> http://www.ics.agh.edu.pl/people/mj
>
> Department of Computer Science
> AGH University of Science and Technology
> Kawiory 21, Building D17, 30-055 Krakow, POLAND
> phone: +48 (12) 328 33 72
>
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> Department of Computer Science
> AGH University of Science and Technology
> Kawiory 21, Building D17, 30-055 Krakow, POLAND
> phone: +48 (12) 328 33 72
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>
>
> --
> Ph.D. Eng. Marcin Jarzab
> mj at agh.edu.pl
> http://www.ics.agh.edu.pl/people/mj
>
> Department of Computer Science
> AGH University of Science and Technology
> Kawiory 21, Building D17, 30-055 Krakow, POLAND
> phone: +48 (12) 328 33 72
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