[one-users] Trouble starting up Virtual Machine from marketplace

[Javier Fontan]

Can you get the template of the VM after it is deployed? Do a "onevm show
<vmid>" or click in the running VM and get the template from the template
tab. The image template will be also useful.


On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Mark Farragher <mark at firstfocus.eu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to start up my first virtual machine on my OpenNebula
> configuration but I keep getting errors. As soon as the VM enters the
> RUNNING state I see start-up errors inside the VM that the boot device
> cannot be found.
>
> Here's my setup:
>
> I have 2 servers: an OpenNebula controller (running Sunstone) and an
> OpenNebula host. My oned.conf file contains this setting:
>
> # MDF 270313: changed datastore location
> DATASTORE_LOCATION = /opt/one/datastores
>
> .. so all images are instantiated in the /opt/one folder instead of the
> /var/lib/one folder. I needed to do this because of the partitioning scheme
> of my host.
>
> On the controller I installed the disk image "Ubuntu Server 12.04 (Precise
> Pangolin) - kvm" from the Marketplace. This is an 11GB image containing a
> contextualized version of Ubuntu Server 12.04. I did not specify a device
> prefix or target so the image will use "hd" and "hda".
>
> My Virtual Machine Template looks like this:
>
> CPU="0.10"
> DISK=[
>   BUS="virtio",
>   IMAGE_ID="3" ]
> FEATURES=[
>   ACPI="yes",
>   PAE="yes" ]
> GRAPHICS=[
>   LISTEN="localhost",
>   PORT="5911",
>   TYPE="vnc" ]
> MEMORY="2000"
> NAME="Ubuntu 12.04 Test"
> NIC=[
>   IP="10.0.0.11",
>   MODEL="virtio",
>   NETWORK="virtual machine lan" ]
> OS=[
>   ARCH="x86_64" ]
> RAW=[
>   DATA="<devices><serial type=\"pty\"><source path=\"/dev/pts/5\"/><target
> port=\"0\"/></serial><console type=\"pty\" tty=\"/dev/pts/5\"><source
> path=\"/dev/pts/5\"/><target port=\"0\"/></console></devices>",
>   TYPE="kvm" ]
> TEMPLATE_ID="1"
>
> Note that I added a "BUS" argument in the DISK section and a "MODEL"
> argument in the NIC section to make the VM use the virtio driver.
>
> When I start a new VM using this template I see the VM going from PENDING
> -> PROLOG -> RUNNING. But if I connect to the host using Nomachine and then
> use virt-manager to inspect the console of the virtual machine, I see this:
>
>
> In case the screenshot does not appear correctly in this e-mail, the start
> up messages are:
>
> TCP cubic registered
> NET: Registered protocol family 10
> Mobile IPv6
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> registered taskstats version 1
> rtc_cmos 00:01: setting system clock to ......
> Initializing network drop monitor service
> List of all partitions:
> No filesystem could mount root, tried:
> Kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown
> block(254,32)
> Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1
> Call trace .....
>
> Nothing I have tried so far has made this problem go away. I already tried
> :
>
>
>    - using a different image file
>    - adding and removing the BUS argument in the DISK section
>    - using different DEVICE PREFIX and disk target settings
>    - experimenting with persistent and non-persistent disks
>
>
> I know my OpenNebula configuration is working because :
>
>
>    - I can see the host CPU load and memory use in Sunstone
>    - The image files transfer correctly from the front end to the host
>    and appear in /opt/one/datastores in the correct folder
>    - The virtual machine ends up in the RUNNING state
>    - I am able to manually start VM's on the host by using virt-manager
>
>
> Right now I have a working KVM installation and I am able to manually
> create KVM images and run them in virt-manager. But when I try to use
> OpenNebula to create and deploy KVM images I see a new VM appear in
> virt-manager but it does not boot.
>
> What could this be?
>
> Thanks for any support on this!
>
> Regards,
>
>
>  - Mark Farragher
>
>
>
>
>
>
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-- 
Javier Fontán Muiños
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Data Center Virtualization
www.OpenNebula.org | jfontan at opennebula.org | @OpenNebula
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