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

[Michal Skrivanek]

On 17 Sep 2013, at 15:48, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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?

Hi,
In addition to that, can you also please add log/observe the actual qemu command line(from ps). It might be a weird virtual hw combination.
What console type do you have? Spice or vnc? Try the other one:)
Feel free to open a bug

Thanks,
michal
> 
> 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:
>> 
>>    On 09/05/2013 06:31 PM, Raul José Cheleguini wrote:
>> 
>>        Hello all,
>> 
>>        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:
>> 
>>        Reproducible steps:
>> 
>>        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.
>> 
>>        The same behavior occurs with the following versions:
>> 
>>        RHEL 5.9 x86_64
>>        RHEL 5.8 x86_64
>>        RHEL 5.7 x86_64
>> 
>>        VM definitions:
>> 
>>        Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x x64
>>        Optimized for: Server
>> 
>> 
>>        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.
>> 
>> 
>>        Packages in use:
>> 
>>        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
>> 
>> 
>>        Details and data collected:
>> 
>>        VM name: tests-rhel5-64bits
>>        engine.log
>>        vdsm.log
>>        qemu process arguments
>>        libvirt relevant logs
>> 
>>        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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