[Users] ovirt fails to start vm on EL based nodes

[Haim Ateya]

On Jan 27, 2012, at 20:12, "Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare)" <Christopher.Brown at med.ge.com> wrote:

> Actually this seems to be indicated as a bug here: http://ovirt.org/wiki/Engine_Node_Integration#Engine_core_machine
> It is noted under "Additional Configuration"
> --> "These 2 steps are currently required due to bugs, they will be changed/removed once the patches that will fix them will be merged."
> --> Change the default emulated VM type by executing:
> --> psql -U postgres engine -c "update vdc_options set option_value='pc-0.14' where option_name='EmulatedMachine' and version='3.0';"

This step on the wiki is not updated, as we already set this option in db as pc-0.14 (to suit Fedora) - it used to be a bug, and we fixed it.

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> If this is the case I can open a bug on it as I searched bugzilla and do not see one open as pertains to this issue.
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> - Chris
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> From: Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare) 
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 8:47 AM
> To: 'Haim Ateya'; Ofer Schreiber
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: RE: [Users] ovirt fails to start vm on EL based nodes
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> Is this something that could be turned into a documented "tunable" parameter for those that wish to use EL based distributions as nodes?
> - Chris
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> From: Haim Ateya [mailto:hateya at redhat.com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:12 AM
> To: Ofer Schreiber
> Cc: Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare); users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] ovirt fails to start vm on EL based nodes
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> On Jan 27, 2012, at 11:01, Ofer Schreiber <oschreib at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Great debugging. 
> Sounds like the 'EmulatedMachine' (hope that's the right attr) in engine-config is configured for fedora based nodes. 
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> Would you mind openning a bug on this?
> Although I'm not sure oVirt supports RHEL completely. 
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> I don't think it's a bug; mean while, you can change 'EmulatedMachine' in vdc_options table from 'pc-0.14' to 'rhel6.2.0', restart Jboss, and it should work.
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> Ofer. 
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> On 27 Jan 2012, at 00:44, "Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare)" <Christopher.Brown at med.ge.com> wrote:
> 
> The ovirt engine is failing to start virtual machines on EL based nodes.
> I think I have found the failure mode.
> The engine log shows:
> 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
> 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
> 2012-01-26 16:01:45,997 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.DestroyVDSCommand] (QuartzScheduler_Worker-89) FINISH, DestroyVDSCommand, log id: 1269b196
> 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
> 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
> 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
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> On the EL node in libvirt.log in the <os> </os>section we see:
> *unnecessary output surpressed*
>                 <os>
>                                 <type arch="x86_64" machine="pc-0.14">hvm</type>
>                                 <boot dev="cdrom"/>
>                                 <boot dev="hd"/>
>                                 <smbios mode="sysinfo"/>
>                 </os>
> , flags=0
> 16:25:42.074: 10537: error : virNetClientProgramDispatchError:170 : internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: Supported machines are:
> pc         RHEL 6.2.0 PC (alias of rhel6.2.0)
> rhel6.2.0  RHEL 6.2.0 PC (default)
> rhel6.1.0  RHEL 6.1.0 PC
> rhel6.0.0  RHEL 6.0.0 PC
> rhel5.5.0  RHEL 5.5.0 PC
> rhel5.4.4  RHEL 5.4.4 PC
> rhel5.4.0  RHEL 5.4.0 PC
>  
> Thus output of qemu-kvm on the EL node is:
> [root at kvmsrv03 ~]# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M ?
> Supported machines are:
> pc         RHEL 6.2.0 PC (alias of rhel6.2.0)
> rhel6.2.0  RHEL 6.2.0 PC (default)
> rhel6.1.0  RHEL 6.1.0 PC
> rhel6.0.0  RHEL 6.0.0 PC
> rhel5.5.0  RHEL 5.5.0 PC
> rhel5.4.4  RHEL 5.4.4 PC
> rhel5.4.0  RHEL 5.4.0 PC
>  
> And the output on a Fedora 16 node is:
> [root at vmdev ~]# qemu-kvm -M ?
> Supported machines are:
> pc         Standard PC (alias of pc-0.14)
> pc-0.14    Standard PC (default)
> fedora-13  Standard PC
> pc-0.13    Standard PC
> pc-0.12    Standard PC
> pc-0.11    Standard PC, qemu 0.11
> pc-0.10    Standard PC, qemu 0.10
> isapc      ISA-only PC
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> Thus it appears that ovirt-engine is passing an un-recognized "machine=" type when running on an EL node.
>  
> - Chris
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