<div dir="ltr">Looked into CPU settings for KVM. Looks like nested virtualization is not the default behavior in KVM.<div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Check for Nested Virtualization:</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">sudo virt-host-validate </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:16px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-family:Menlo;font-size:11px">[root@ovirt1 ~]# sudo virt-host-validate</span><br></p></div><div>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"> QEMU: Checking for hardware virtualization : <span style="color:rgb(195,55,32)">FAIL</span> (Only emulated CPUs are available, performance will be significantly limited)</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"> QEMU: Checking if device /dev/vhost-net exists : <span style="color:rgb(52,189,38)">PASS</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"> QEMU: Checking if device /dev/net/tun exists : <span style="color:rgb(52,189,38)">PASS</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><br></p><div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Follow the following to enable nested virt :</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><a href="https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_7&p=kvm&f=7">https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_7&p=kvm&f=7</a> </p></div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"></p><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></div><p></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo">Shut down the node VMs. Check the "<i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">Copy host CPU configuration</i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"> checkbox".</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo">I was able to proceed to hosted engine installation.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo">Regards,</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo">HK</p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Open tech <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:opentech101@gmail.com" target="_blank">opentech101@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi All,</div><div> I am trying to build a Ovirt node/Gluster Storage and Hosted Engine lab using nested virtualization.</div><div>I have been following this tutorial.</div><div><a href="https://www.ovirt.org/blog/2017/04/up-and-running-with-ovirt-4.1-and-gluster-storage/" target="_blank">https://www.ovirt.org/blog/<wbr>2017/04/up-and-running-with-<wbr>ovirt-4.1-and-gluster-storage/</a></div><div><br></div><div>First I tried on ESXi 6.5. Got three nodes installed with dual networks & passwordless ssh enabled. Ran the Hosted Engine with Gluster install via the Ovirt node. It ran successfully.</div><div><br></div><div>Went to "continue with hosted engine deployment"</div><div><br></div><div> Hosted Engine deployment failed with error.</div><div> </div><div><b> Failed to execute stage 'Environment setup': Hardware does not support virtualization</b></div><div><b> Hosted Engine deployment failed</b></div><div><br></div><div>Went over some message boards. seemed like ovirt nested virtualization would not be supported on ESXi.</div><div><br></div><div>Spent another day building the whole thing again from scratch on CentOS/KVM</div><div><br></div><div>I am getting the same error with KVM as well. </div><div><br></div><div>Going over some discussions I gather that this should be supported.</div><div><br></div><div>Any ideas on what might be the issue here. Any setting on KVM virtual machine etc that might help here ?.</div><div><br></div><div>Log file is attached</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>HK</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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