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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>The ovirt engine is failing to start virtual machines on EL based nodes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think I have found the failure mode.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The engine log shows:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2012-01-26 16:01:45,200 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.CreateVmVDSCommand] (pool-5-thread-48) FINISH, CreateVmVDSCommand, return: WaitForLaunch, log id: d1649a2<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2012-01-26 16:01:45,953 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.DestroyVDSCommand] (QuartzScheduler_Worker-89) START, DestroyVDSCommand(vdsId = e7df9be0-47a0-11e1-80f3-00144f8d7c32, vmId=6c84897b-4d2b-461b-ab64-b30bf9ff7b22, force=false, secondsToWait=0, gracefully=false), log id: 1269b196<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2012-01-26 16:01:45,997 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.DestroyVDSCommand] (QuartzScheduler_Worker-89) FINISH, DestroyVDSCommand, log id: 1269b196<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>p012-01-26 16:01:46,020 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.VdsUpdateRunTimeInfo] (QuartzScheduler_Worker-89) Running on vds during rerun failed vm: null<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2012-01-26 16:01:46,028 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.VdsUpdateRunTimeInfo] (QuartzScheduler_Worker-89) vm winxp running in db and not running in vds - add to rerun treatment. vds kvmsrv03<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2012-01-26 16:01:46,042 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.VdsUpdateRunTimeInfo] (QuartzScheduler_Worker-89) Rerun vm 6c84897b-4d2b-461b-ab64-b30bf9ff7b22. Called from vds kvmsrv03<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On the EL node in libvirt.log in the <os> </os>section we see:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>*<b>unnecessary output surpressed</b>*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <os><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <type arch="x86_64" machine="pc-0.14">hvm</type><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <boot dev="cdrom"/><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <boot dev="hd"/><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <smbios mode="sysinfo"/><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </os><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>, flags=0<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>16:25:42.074: 10537: error : virNetClientProgramDispatchError:170 : internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: Supported machines are:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>pc RHEL 6.2.0 PC (alias of rhel6.2.0)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rhel6.2.0 RHEL 6.2.0 PC (default)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rhel6.1.0 RHEL 6.1.0 PC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rhel6.0.0 RHEL 6.0.0 PC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rhel5.5.0 RHEL 5.5.0 PC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rhel5.4.4 RHEL 5.4.4 PC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rhel5.4.0 RHEL 5.4.0 PC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thus output of qemu-kvm on the EL node is:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>[root@kvmsrv03 ~]# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M ?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Supported machines are:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>pc RHEL 6.2.0 PC (alias of rhel6.2.0)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rhel6.2.0 RHEL 6.2.0 PC (default)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rhel6.1.0 RHEL 6.1.0 PC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rhel6.0.0 RHEL 6.0.0 PC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rhel5.5.0 RHEL 5.5.0 PC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rhel5.4.4 RHEL 5.4.4 PC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rhel5.4.0 RHEL 5.4.0 PC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And the output on a Fedora 16 node is:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>[root@vmdev ~]# qemu-kvm -M ?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Supported machines are:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>pc Standard PC (alias of pc-0.14)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>pc-0.14 Standard PC (default)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>fedora-13 Standard PC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>pc-0.13 Standard PC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>pc-0.12 Standard PC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>pc-0.11 Standard PC, qemu 0.11<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>pc-0.10 Standard PC, qemu 0.10<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>isapc ISA-only PC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thus it appears that ovirt-engine is passing an un-recognized "machine=" type when running on an EL node.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Chris<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>