[Users] DL380 G5 - Fails to Activate

[Alexandre Santos]

2013/1/25 Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net>:
>
> I have a couple of old DL380 G5's and i am putting them into their own
> cluster for testing various things out.
> The install of 3.1 from dreyou goes fine onto them but when they try to
> activate i get the following
>
> Host xxx.xxx.net.uk moved to Non-Operational state as host does not meet the
> cluster's minimum CPU level. Missing CPU features : model_Conroe, nx
>
> KVM appears to run just fine on these host and their cpu's are
>
> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU            5140  @ 2.33GHz
>
> Is it possible to add these in to a 3.1 cluster ??
>
>
> and now i have managed to find a similar post
>
> # vdsClient -s 0 getVdsCaps | grep -i flags
> cpuFlags =
> fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,ht,tm,pbe,syscall,lm,constant_tsc,arch_perfmon,pebs,bts,rep_good,aperfmperf,pni,dtes64,monitor,ds_cpl,vmx,est,tm2,ssse3,cx16,xtpr,pdcm,dca,lahf_lm,dts,tpr_shadow
>
> # virsh -r capabilities
> <capabilities>
>
>   <host>
>     <uuid>134bd567-da9f-43f9-8a2b-c259ed34f938</uuid>
>     <cpu>
>       <arch>x86_64</arch>
>       <model>kvm32</model>
>       <vendor>Intel</vendor>
>       <topology sockets='1' cores='2' threads='1'/>
>       <feature name='lahf_lm'/>
>       <feature name='lm'/>
>       <feature name='syscall'/>
>       <feature name='dca'/>
>       <feature name='pdcm'/>
>       <feature name='xtpr'/>
>       <feature name='cx16'/>
>       <feature name='ssse3'/>
>       <feature name='tm2'/>
>       <feature name='est'/>
>       <feature name='vmx'/>
>       <feature name='ds_cpl'/>
>       <feature name='monitor'/>
>       <feature name='dtes64'/>
>       <feature name='pbe'/>
>       <feature name='tm'/>
>       <feature name='ht'/>
>       <feature name='ss'/>
>       <feature name='acpi'/>
>       <feature name='ds'/>
>       <feature name='vme'/>
>     </cpu>
>     <power_management>
>       <suspend_disk/>
>     </power_management>
>     <migration_features>
>       <live/>
>       <uri_transports>
>         <uri_transport>tcp</uri_transport>
>       </uri_transports>
>     </migration_features>
>     <topology>
>       <cells num='1'>
>         <cell id='0'>
>           <cpus num='2'>
>             <cpu id='0'/>
>             <cpu id='1'/>
>           </cpus>
>         </cell>
>       </cells>
>     </topology>
>   </host>
>
>   <guest>
>     <os_type>hvm</os_type>
>     <arch name='i686'>
>       <wordsize>32</wordsize>
>       <emulator>/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm</emulator>
>       <machine>rhel6.3.0</machine>
>       <machine canonical='rhel6.3.0'>pc</machine>
>       <machine>rhel6.2.0</machine>
>       <machine>rhel6.1.0</machine>
>       <machine>rhel6.0.0</machine>
>       <machine>rhel5.5.0</machine>
>       <machine>rhel5.4.4</machine>
>       <machine>rhel5.4.0</machine>
>       <domain type='qemu'>
>       </domain>
>       <domain type='kvm'>
>         <emulator>/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm</emulator>
>       </domain>
>     </arch>
>     <features>
>       <cpuselection/>
>       <deviceboot/>
>       <pae/>
>       <nonpae/>
>       <acpi default='on' toggle='yes'/>
>       <apic default='on' toggle='no'/>
>     </features>
>   </guest>
>
>   <guest>
>     <os_type>hvm</os_type>
>     <arch name='x86_64'>
>       <wordsize>64</wordsize>
>       <emulator>/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm</emulator>
>       <machine>rhel6.3.0</machine>
>       <machine canonical='rhel6.3.0'>pc</machine>
>       <machine>rhel6.2.0</machine>
>       <machine>rhel6.1.0</machine>
>       <machine>rhel6.0.0</machine>
>       <machine>rhel5.5.0</machine>
>       <machine>rhel5.4.4</machine>
>       <machine>rhel5.4.0</machine>
>       <domain type='qemu'>
>       </domain>
>       <domain type='kvm'>
>         <emulator>/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm</emulator>
>       </domain>
>     </arch>
>     <features>
>       <cpuselection/>
>       <deviceboot/>
>       <acpi default='on' toggle='yes'/>
>       <apic default='on' toggle='no'/>
>     </features>
>   </guest>
>
> </capabilities>
>
>
> Hi - any clues here or am i out of luck with these hosts?
>
> thanks
>
>
>
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Hi,
how about the kvm-ok tool result? Is it responding:

INFO: /dev/kvm exists
KVM acceleration can be used

Alex