[one-users] VM Failed with Windows OS

Sudeep Narayan Banerjee snbanerjee at iitgn.ac.in
Wed Jul 9 22:33:03 PDT 2014 

Dear Valentine,

Yes I can boot the VM in my local machine using qemu.

Right now I have installed win7 in my virtualbox & converted .vdi to .qcow2
format using qemu-utils

after that shall try to import the qcow2 file at /var/lib/libvirt/images/
folder and try again.

Sudeep



On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Valentin Bud <valentin.bud at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Sudeep,
>
> I have never used virt-install but I doubt it install the VirtIO drivers
> [1]
> by itself inside the Windows 7 image.
>
> Without those drivers the virtio doesn't work inside the machine, in the
> sense
> that Windows Installer doesn't see any HDD present.
>
> Can you boot the VM on your local machine using qemu?
>
> [1]: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers
>
> Best,
> Valentin
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Sudeep Narayan Banerjee <
> snbanerjee at iitgn.ac.in> wrote:
>
>> Hello Valentine,
>>
>> I followed the steps in and could install Win7 using virt-install
>> command. Win7 OS gets installed in 7GB HDD and I could see Win7 desktop
>> using virt-manager.
>>
>> Then I power-off the machine and create the image, template & VM
>> successfully from oneadmin prompt.
>>
>> But, from vncviewer in OpenNebula GUI, it says, "Booting from Hard-Disk".
>> Inside the VM, I am not able to see the desktop!
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Following steps I did:
>>
>> 1. [oneadmin at front ~]$ cd /var/lib/libvirt/images/
>>
>> [oneadmin at front images]$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o
>> preallocation=metadata /storage/local/images/win7.qcow2 8G
>>
>>
>> Formatting '/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qow2', fmt=qcow2 size=8589934592
>> encryption=off cluster_size=65536 preallocation='metadata'
>>
>>
>> [oneadmin at front images]$ qemu-img info win7.qcow2
>>
>> image: win7.qcow2
>>
>> file format: raw
>> virtual size: 8.0G (8589934592 bytes)
>> disk size: 392K
>> cluster_size: 65536
>>
>> [oneadmin at front images]$ qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 win7.qcow2
>> win7.qcow2
>>
>> [oneadmin at front images]$ qemu-img info win7.qcow2
>>
>> image: win7.qcow2
>> file format: qcow2
>>
>> virtual size: 8.0G (8589934592 bytes)
>> disk size: 392K
>> cluster_size: 65536
>>
>> [oneadmin at front images]$ chown qemu.qemu win7.qcow2
>>
>> [oneadmin at front images]$  virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name
>> win7 --ram 1024 --vcpus 2 --disk
>> path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2,size=8,format=qcow2,bus=virtio,cache=none
>> --cdrom /home/Windows-7-x86.iso --vnc --os-type=windows --os-variant=win7
>> -noautoconsole --accelerate --noapic --keymap=en-us
>>
>>
>> Finally,
>>
>>
>> [oneadmin at front ~]$ onevm list
>>     ID USER     GROUP    NAME            STAT UCPU    UMEM
>> HOST             TIME
>>     25 oneadmin oneadmin myvm1           runn    0    512M nc1
>> 11d 16h14
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sudeep
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Valentin Bud <valentin.bud at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Sudeep,
>>>
>>> Note that virt-install doesn't care that your image is already created,
>>> it
>>> overwrites it and changes the format to raw.
>>>
>>> Take a look over this article [1], on how to pass the format of the
>>> image to virt-install.
>>>
>>> Or just qemu-img convert your raw image to qcow2.
>>>
>>> [1]:
>>> http://opennodecloud.com/documentation/howtos/kvm-guests-virt-install-examples/
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Valentin
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Sudeep Narayan Banerjee <
>>> snbanerjee at iitgn.ac.in> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Javier,
>>>>
>>>> You are true. It is raw indeed. But I made it like qcow2! Below is the
>>>> command I executed for qcow2.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [oneadmin at front images]$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o
>>>> preallocation=metadata /storage/local/images/
>>>> winserv1.qcow2 8G
>>>> Formatting '/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qow2', fmt=qcow2
>>>> size=8589934592 encryption=off cluster_size=65536 preallocation='metadata'
>>>>
>>>> [oneadmin at front images]$ qemu-img info
>>>> /var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2
>>>> image: /var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2
>>>> file format: raw
>>>> virtual size: 8.0G (8589934592 bytes)
>>>> disk size: 4.9G
>>>>
>>>> So, how to fix it?!? I have been trying to make a VM in windows for
>>>> past 10days but still not able to make it! :-(
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Sudeep
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Javier Fontan <jfontan at opennebula.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I believe that the image is not a qcow2 image but raw. You can check
>>>>> the format with:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Sudeep Narayan Banerjee
>>>>> <snbanerjee at iitgn.ac.in> wrote:
>>>>> > Dear Sir,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I have been trying to install Windows-7 64bit in OpenNebula. Our
>>>>> target is
>>>>> > to create a VM with Windows as OS.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Below are the steps that I followed. But not able to "runn" the VM.
>>>>> SeLinux
>>>>> > is Disabled in both servers.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > [root at front ~]# getenforce    --> Frontend
>>>>> > Disabled
>>>>> >
>>>>> > [root at nc1 ~]# getenforce     --> Worker Node
>>>>> > Disabled
>>>>> >
>>>>> > [oneadmin at front ~]$ cd /var/lib/libvirt/images/
>>>>> >
>>>>> > [oneadmin at front images]$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o
>>>>> preallocation=metadata
>>>>> > /storage/local/images/winserv1.qcow2 8G
>>>>> > Formatting '/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qow2', fmt=qcow2
>>>>> size=8589934592
>>>>> > encryption=off cluster_size=65536 preallocation='metadata'
>>>>> >
>>>>> > [oneadmin at front images]$ ls -lrth
>>>>> > total 5.0G
>>>>> > -rw------- 1 oneadmin oneadmin 8.0G Jul  8 18:23 win7.qcow2
>>>>> > [oneadmin at front images]$ exit
>>>>> >
>>>>> > [root at front ~]# virt-install --prompt
>>>>> > What is the name of your virtual machine?
>>>>> > myvm7
>>>>> > How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)?
>>>>> > 1024
>>>>> > What would you like to use as the disk (file path)?
>>>>> > /var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2
>>>>> > How large would you like the disk
>>>>> (/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2) to be
>>>>> > (in gigabytes)?
>>>>> > 8
>>>>> > What is the install CD-ROM/ISO or URL?
>>>>> > /home/Windows-7-x86.iso
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Starting install...
>>>>> > Allocating 'win7.qcow2'
>>>>> > | 8.0 GB     00:00
>>>>> > Creating domain...
>>>>> > |    0 B     00:00
>>>>> > (virt-viewer:24972): virt-viewer-DEBUG: Couldn't load configuration:
>>>>> File is
>>>>> > empty
>>>>> >
>>>>> > [oneadmin at front ~]$ oneimage create --name "win7-x86_64" --path
>>>>> > "/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2" --driver qcow2 --datastore
>>>>> default
>>>>> > ID: 12
>>>>> >
>>>>> > [oneadmin at front ~]$ oneimage list
>>>>> >   ID USER       GROUP      NAME            DATASTORE     SIZE TYPE
>>>>> PER STAT
>>>>> > RVMS
>>>>> >    3 oneadmin   oneadmin   Ubuntu-14.04_x8 default       287M OS
>>>>>  No used
>>>>> > 1
>>>>> >   12 oneadmin   oneadmin   win7-x86_64     default         8G OS
>>>>>  No rdy
>>>>> > 0
>>>>> >
>>>>> > [oneadmin at front ~]$ onetemplate create --name "win7" --cpu 1 --vcpu
>>>>> 1
>>>>> > --memory 512 --arch x86_64 --disk "win7-x86_64" --nic "private"
>>>>> --vnc --ssh
>>>>> > ID: 11
>>>>> >
>>>>> > [oneadmin at front ~]$ onetemplate list
>>>>> >   ID USER            GROUP           NAME
>>>>> > REGTIME
>>>>> >    2 oneadmin        oneadmin        Ubuntu-14.04
>>>>> 06/27
>>>>> > 02:11:28
>>>>> >   11 oneadmin        oneadmin        win7
>>>>> 07/08
>>>>> > 18:30:39
>>>>> >
>>>>> > [oneadmin at front ~]$ onetemplate instantiate win7 --name myvm8
>>>>> > VM ID: 36
>>>>> >
>>>>> > [oneadmin at front ~]$ onevm list
>>>>> >     ID USER     GROUP    NAME            STAT UCPU    UMEM HOST
>>>>> > TIME
>>>>> >     25 oneadmin oneadmin myvm2           runn    0    512M nc1
>>>>>   11d
>>>>> > 16h14
>>>>> >     36 oneadmin oneadmin myvm8           fail    0      0K
>>>>>    0d
>>>>> > 00h00
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > ERROR from log file.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > [oneadmin at front ~]$ tail -f /var/log/one/36.log
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Tue Jul  8 18:31:48 2014 [DiM][I]: New VM state is ACTIVE.
>>>>> > Tue Jul  8 18:31:48 2014 [LCM][I]: New VM state is PROLOG.
>>>>> > Tue Jul  8 18:35:30 2014 [LCM][I]: New VM state is BOOT
>>>>> > Tue Jul  8 18:35:30 2014 [VMM][I]: Generating deployment file:
>>>>> > /var/lib/one/vms/36/deployment.0
>>>>> > Tue Jul  8 18:35:31 2014 [VMM][I]: ExitCode: 0
>>>>> > Tue Jul  8 18:35:31 2014 [VMM][I]: Successfully execute network
>>>>> driver
>>>>> > operation: pre.
>>>>> > Tue Jul  8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]: Command execution fail: cat <<
>>>>> EOT |
>>>>> > /var/tmp/one/vmm/kvm/deploy
>>>>> '/var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/deployment.0'
>>>>> > 'nc1' 36 nc1
>>>>> > Tue Jul  8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]: error: Failed to create domain
>>>>> from
>>>>> > /var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/deployment.0
>>>>> > Tue Jul  8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]: error: internal error process
>>>>> exited
>>>>> > while connecting to monitor: qemu-kvm: -drive
>>>>> >
>>>>> file=/var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/disk.0,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=qcow2:
>>>>> > could not open disk image /var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/disk.0:
>>>>> Invalid
>>>>> > argument
>>>>> > Tue Jul  8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]:
>>>>> > Tue Jul  8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][E]: Could not create domain from
>>>>> > /var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/deployment.0
>>>>> > Tue Jul  8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]: ExitCode: 255
>>>>> > Tue Jul  8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][I]: Failed to execute virtualization
>>>>> driver
>>>>> > operation: deploy.
>>>>> > Tue Jul  8 18:35:32 2014 [VMM][E]: Error deploying virtual machine:
>>>>> Could
>>>>> > not create domain from /var/lib/one/datastores/0/36/deployment.0
>>>>> > Tue Jul  8 18:35:33 2014 [DiM][I]: New VM state is FAILED
>>>>> >
>>>>> > --
>>>>> > Thanks & Regards,
>>>>> > Sudeep Narayan Banerjee
>>>>> >
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>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Javier Fontán Muiños
>>>>> Developer
>>>>> OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple
>>>>> www.OpenNebula.org | @OpenNebula | github.com/jfontan
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>>> Sudeep Narayan Banerjee
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Valentin Bud
>>> http://databus.pro | valentin at databus.pro
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Sudeep Narayan Banerjee
>>
>


-- 
Thanks & Regards,
Sudeep Narayan Banerjee
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