[Users] Sanlock issue when trying to start vm

[Itamar Heim]

On 06/22/2012 04:07 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> On 06/22/2012 02:02 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>> On 06/21/2012 12:04 AM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
>>> On 06/20/2012 08:33 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>>>> On 06/20/2012 08:17 AM, Rami Vaknin wrote:
>>>>> On 06/19/2012 09:36 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> after getting the 3.1 beta engine and a host set up I now get an error
>>>>>> when
>>>>>> trying to start a vm.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Engine reports this:
>>>>>> VM myvm is down. Exit message: internal error Failed to open socket to
>>>>>> sanlock daemon: No such file or directory.
>>>>> Please take a look at the following bugs:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832935
>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832056
>>>> Thanks, after modprobe softdog and restarting wdmd and sanlock I was able
>>>> to start the VM. Unfortunately my experiment with using nested VMs to fake
>>>> nodes didn't pan out (the "guest-in-guest" booted for a bit and then froze).
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to use pure qemu guests for testing (like in devstack)?
>>>> While I do have two systems that support hardware virtualization i cannot
>>>> reinstall either of them to use them as a host.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>     Dennis
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>>> The CentOS builds include a plugin called vdsm-hook-simpleqemu I think I
>>> saw the hook sitting in Git as well so that plug-in might do what you are
>>> looking for?
>>
>> Hm, looks like it but that doesn't seem to be available for the regular
>> builds. The is a vdsm-hook-faqemu package though which when comparing the
>> code seems to do a similar thing (it also uses the "fake_kvm_support"
>> setting from vdsm.conf like simpleqemu).
>> Is the latter maybe a replacement of the former?
>>
>
> Hm, i tried this but I still get the message "Domain requires KVM, but it
> is not available."

that's becuase the bootstrap script requires to be hacked as well.
but you couldn't pick a better timing to fail on this, as federico just 
posted a patch for this which you can help verify :)
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/5611/