[Users] Problems with RHEL 5 x86_64 VMs in oVirt 3.3

[Itamar Heim]

On 09/17/2013 04:44 PM, Raul José Cheleguini wrote:
> Hi Itamar,
>
> Apparently not. I've just upgraded the engine and the node to the latest
> stable packages and it is still unable to start up the installation
> process of RHEL 5 x86_64 based virtual machines.
>
> # rpm -q qemu qemu-kvm vdsm
> qemu-1.4.2-9.fc19.x86_64
> qemu-kvm-1.4.2-9.fc19.x86_64
> vdsm-4.12.1-2.fc19.x86_64
>
> # rpm -q ovirt-engine
> ovirt-engine-3.3.0-4.fc19.noarch
>
> Does anyone else is facing the same issue?

in the meantime, can you try and reproduce on centos/rhel?

thanks,
    Itamar

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> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     On 09/05/2013 06:31 PM, Raul José Cheleguini wrote:
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>         Hello all,
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>         Please, I'm performing tests with oVirt 3.3 and it has been working
>         really well, except the fact that the installation of RHEL 5 VMs
>         is not
>         happening, not sure why. Does anybody else is experiencing the same
>         issue? Details:
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>         Reproducible steps:
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>         1) Start the VM via 'Run once" option.
>         2) Insert the boot parameters, for instance: linux text
>         3) vmlinuz and initrd are loaded without errors.
>         4) Black screen with a blinking cursor.
>         5) Anaconda never come up, Kernel is not loaded apparently.
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>         The same behavior occurs with the following versions:
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>         RHEL 5.9 x86_64
>         RHEL 5.8 x86_64
>         RHEL 5.7 x86_64
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>         VM definitions:
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>         Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x x64
>         Optimized for: Server
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>         If I simple change to a RHEL 5.9 32Bits ISO (Even with the
>         'Operating
>         System' field defined to work for x64), I am able to carry on
>         with the
>         VM installation and everything goes ok.
>
>         Fedora 18 and 19 for x84_64 works well, also RHEL 6 builds for
>         x86_64.
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>         Packages in use:
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>         ovirt-engine-3.3.0-1.fc19.__noarch
>         qemu-1.4.2-7.fc19.x86_64
>         qemu-kvm-1.4.2-7.fc19.x86_64
>         libvirt-1.0.5.5-1.fc19.x86_64
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>         Details and data collected:
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>         VM name: tests-rhel5-64bits
>         engine.log
>         vdsm.log
>         qemu process arguments
>         libvirt relevant logs
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>         Last test timestamp: 2013-Sep-05, 12:09
>         VM tests-rhel5-64bits started on Host dell-pe2950-1
>
>
>         Should I file a bug?
>         Any help will be really appreciated.
>         Thanks,
>         Raul.
>
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>     was this resolved?
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