[Users] DL380 G5 - Fails to Activate

[Tom Brown]

> 
>> 
>> 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

for posterity - 

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Rhev-3-Beta-Proliant-DL380-2536011.S.93285316

This solved it for me - 

cheers