<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Javier, <div><br></div><div>I have made one change since my last e-mail. The @opennebula user on Twitter suggested I change the BUS to "IDE" because the virtual machine might not have support for the virtio driver. I tried this but it had no effect - I still get the same error message. The vm output below has this new BUS value, just so you know. </div><div><br></div><div>My VM id is 21, so: </div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>oneadmin@metroplex:/etc/one$ onevm show 21</div></div><div><br></div><div>The output is: </div><div><br></div><div><div>VIRTUAL MACHINE 21 INFORMATION </div><div>ID : 21 </div><div>NAME : Ubuntu 12.04 Test </div><div>USER : oneadmin </div><div>GROUP : oneadmin </div><div>STATE : ACTIVE </div><div>LCM_STATE : RUNNING </div><div>RESCHED : No </div><div>HOST : 77.245.85.155 </div><div>START TIME : 03/27 17:04:28 </div><div>END TIME : - </div><div>DEPLOY ID : one-21 </div><div><br></div><div>VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORING </div><div>NET_TX : 0K </div><div>NET_RX : 0K </div><div>USED MEMORY : 2G </div><div>USED CPU : 99 </div><div><br></div><div>PERMISSIONS </div><div>OWNER : um- </div><div>GROUP : --- </div><div>OTHER : --- </div><div><br></div><div>VIRTUAL MACHINE TEMPLATE </div><div>CPU="0.10"</div><div>DISK=[</div><div> BUS="IDE",</div><div> CLONE="YES",</div><div> DATASTORE="images",</div><div> DATASTORE_ID="101",</div><div> DEV_PREFIX="hd",</div><div> DISK_ID="0",</div><div> IMAGE="Ubuntu Server 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) - kvm",</div><div> IMAGE_ID="3",</div><div> READONLY="NO",</div><div> SAVE="NO",</div><div> SOURCE="/var/lib/one/datastores/101/8231dd33c68c873afa94f1deff1688d2",</div><div> TARGET="hda",</div><div> TM_MAD="ssh",</div><div> TYPE="FILE" ]</div><div>FEATURES=[</div><div> ACPI="yes",</div><div> PAE="yes" ]</div><div>GRAPHICS=[</div><div> LISTEN="localhost",</div><div> PORT="5911",</div><div> TYPE="vnc" ]</div><div>MEMORY="2000"</div><div>NAME="Ubuntu 12.04 Test"</div><div>NIC=[</div><div> BRIDGE="br0",</div><div> IP="10.0.0.11",</div><div> MAC="02:00:0a:00:00:0b",</div><div> MODEL="virtio",</div><div> NETWORK="virtual machine lan",</div><div> NETWORK_ID="3",</div><div> PHYDEV="eth1",</div><div> VLAN="YES" ]</div><div>OS=[</div><div> ARCH="x86_64" ]</div><div>RAW=[</div><div> 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>",</div><div> TYPE="kvm" ]</div><div>TEMPLATE_ID="1"</div><div>VMID="21"</div><div><br></div><div>VIRTUAL MACHINE HISTORY </div><div> SEQ HOST REASON START TIME PROLOG_TIME</div><div> 0 77.245.85.155 none 03/27 17:04:54 0d 00h44m11s 0d 00h02m47s</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 12px; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; "><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(11, 103, 171); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; "></span></font></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(11, 103, 171); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(11, 103, 171); "><font color="#000000">Kind regards,<br>Mark Farragher <br><br></font></p></span></div></span></div><div><div>On Mar 27, 2013, at 5:23 PM, Javier Fontan <<a href="mailto:jfontan@opennebula.org">jfontan@opennebula.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">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.<div><br></div>
<div><br><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Mark Farragher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@firstfocus.eu" target="_blank">mark@firstfocus.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi everyone, <div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Here's my setup: </div><div><br></div><div>I have 2 servers: an OpenNebula controller (running Sunstone) and an OpenNebula host. My oned.conf file contains this setting: </div><div><br></div><div><div>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span># MDF 270313: changed datastore location</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>DATASTORE_LOCATION = /opt/one/datastores</div></div><div><br></div><div>.. 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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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". </div>
<div><br></div><div>My Virtual Machine Template looks like this:</div><div><br></div><div><div>CPU="0.10"</div><div>DISK=[</div><div> BUS="virtio",</div><div> IMAGE_ID="3" ]</div><div>FEATURES=[</div>
<div> ACPI="yes",</div><div> PAE="yes" ]</div><div>GRAPHICS=[</div><div> LISTEN="localhost",</div><div> PORT="5911",</div><div> TYPE="vnc" ]</div><div>MEMORY="2000"</div>
<div>NAME="Ubuntu 12.04 Test"</div><div>NIC=[</div><div> IP="10.0.0.11",</div><div> MODEL="virtio",</div><div> NETWORK="virtual machine lan" ]</div><div>OS=[</div><div> ARCH="x86_64" ]</div>
<div>RAW=[</div><div> 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>",</div>
<div> TYPE="kvm" ]</div><div>TEMPLATE_ID="1"</div></div><div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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: </div>
<div><br></div><div><span><Screen Shot 2013-03-27 at 3.20.27 PM.png></span></div><div><br></div><div>In case the screenshot does not appear correctly in this e-mail, the start up messages are: </div>
<div><br></div><div>TCP cubic registered</div><div>NET: Registered protocol family 10</div><div>Mobile IPv6</div><div>NET: Registered protocol family 17</div><div>registered taskstats version 1</div><div>rtc_cmos 00:01: setting system clock to ......</div>
<div>Initializing network drop monitor service</div><div>List of all partitions:</div><div>No filesystem could mount root, tried:</div><div>Kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(254,32)</div>
<div>Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1</div><div>Call trace .....</div><div><br></div><div>Nothing I have tried so far has made this problem go away. I already tried : </div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>using a different image file</li>
<li>adding and removing the BUS argument in the DISK section</li><li>using different DEVICE PREFIX and disk target settings</li><li>experimenting with persistent and non-persistent disks</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>
I know my OpenNebula configuration is working because :</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>I can see the host CPU load and memory use in Sunstone</li><li>The image files transfer correctly from the front end to the host and appear in /opt/one/datastores in the correct folder</li>
<li>The virtual machine ends up in the RUNNING state</li><li>I am able to manually start VM's on the host by using virt-manager</li></ul><div><br></div><div>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. </div>
</div><div><br></div><div>What could this be? </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for any support on this! </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> - Mark Farragher</div><div><br></div><div>
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