[ovirt-users] ovirt-guest-agent issue on rhel5.5

Vinzenz Feenstra vfeenstr at redhat.com
Thu Feb 12 10:37:52 UTC 2015


On 02/12/2015 09:21 AM, John Michael Mercado wrote:
> Oh, that's sad. What if i upgrade RHEL5.5 to 5.11 using "yum update" 
> will that solved the problem?, or i just need to install a fresh 
> RHEL5.11 OS?

Upgrade and reboot would solve the issue for you.

>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Vinzenz Feenstra <vfeenstr at redhat.com 
> <mailto:vfeenstr at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I see now that you have reported that you're using RHEL 5.5
>     unfortunately I have to tell you that the absolute minimum
>     supported RHEL5 is RHEL 5.6 which comes with the kernel 2.6.18-238
>     version which includes the required virtio drivers.
>
>     Any prior RHEL5 kernel version won't work.
>
>     Sorry.
>
>
>     On 02/09/2015 10:32 AM, Vinzenz Feenstra wrote:
>>     On 02/09/2015 09:46 AM, John Michael Mercado wrote:
>>>     Hi Vinzenz,
>>>
>>>     Sorry for the late reply. The hosts(nodes) is running VDSM. I
>>>     tried to install ovirt-guest-agent and also tried rhevm-guest-agent
>>>     but i still encountered the problem.
>>
>>     This seems to be strange and I have to say that I haven't
>>     encountered this issue so far.
>>
>>     Can you please run the following commands and paste the output:
>>
>>     # ls -lh /dev/virtio-ports/
>>     # ls -lh /dev/vport*
>>
>>
>>     Thanks
>>
>>>
>>>     Thanks
>>>
>>>     On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Vinzenz Feenstra
>>>     <vfeenstr at redhat.com <mailto:vfeenstr at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Hi,
>>>
>>>         @Yaniv
>>>         The guest agent is supposed to be working on RHEL5
>>>
>>>         @John:
>>>         Are you running the guest agent on a RHEVM VM? This is
>>>         usually an error that occurs when trying to run on a machine
>>>         which is not controlled through VDSM which controls the
>>>         required virtio channel.
>>>
>>>         Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>         On 01/29/2015 03:25 PM, Lev Veyde wrote:
>>>>         Hi Yaniv,
>>>>
>>>>         I'm not sure the latest version of RHEV/oVirt GA will work
>>>>         on RHEL 5.
>>>>         But it's better to speak with the maintainer - Vinzenz
>>>>         Feenstra.
>>>>
>>>>         Thanks in advance,
>>>>         Lev Veyde.
>>>>
>>>>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>         *From: *"Yaniv Dary" <ydary at redhat.com>
>>>>         <mailto:ydary at redhat.com>
>>>>         *To: *"John Michael Mercado" <jm.mercado25 at gmail.com>
>>>>         <mailto:jm.mercado25 at gmail.com>, "Lev Veyde"
>>>>         <lveyde at redhat.com> <mailto:lveyde at redhat.com>
>>>>         *Sent: *Thursday, January 29, 2015 3:59:57 PM
>>>>         *Subject: *Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt-guest-agent issue on rhel5.5
>>>>
>>>>         I'm pretty sure guest agent doesn't work on RHEL5, Lev?
>>>>
>>>>         On 01/27/2015 04:32 AM, John Michael Mercado wrote:
>>>>
>>>>             Hi All,
>>>>
>>>>             I need your help. Anyone who encounter the below error
>>>>             and have the solution? Can you help me how to fix this?
>>>>
>>>>             MainThread::INFO::2015-01-27
>>>>             10:22:53,247::ovirt-guest-agent::57::root::Starting
>>>>             oVirt guest agent
>>>>             MainThread::ERROR::2015-01-27
>>>>             10:22:53,248::ovirt-guest-agent::138::root::Unhandled
>>>>             exception in oVirt guest agent!
>>>>             Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>               File
>>>>             "/usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.py",
>>>>             line 132, in ?
>>>>                 agent.run(daemon, pidfile)
>>>>               File
>>>>             "/usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.py",
>>>>             line 63, in run
>>>>                 self.agent = LinuxVdsAgent(config)
>>>>               File
>>>>             "/usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/GuestAgentLinux2.py",
>>>>             line 371, in __init__
>>>>             AgentLogicBase.__init__(self, config)
>>>>               File
>>>>             "/usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/OVirtAgentLogic.py", line
>>>>             171, in __init__
>>>>                 self.vio = VirtIoChannel(config.get("virtio",
>>>>             "device"))
>>>>               File "/usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/VirtIoChannel.py",
>>>>             line 150, in __init__
>>>>                 self._stream = VirtIoStream(vport_name)
>>>>               File "/usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/VirtIoChannel.py",
>>>>             line 131, in __init__
>>>>                 self._vport = os.open(vport_name, os.O_RDWR)
>>>>             OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>>>>             '/dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>             Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>         -- 
>>>>         Yaniv Dary
>>>>         Red Hat Israel Ltd.
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>>>>
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>>>>         IRC : ydary
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         -- 
>>>         Regards,
>>>
>>>         Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer
>>>         RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D
>>>         Phone:+420 532 294 625  <tel:%2B420%20532%20294%20625>
>>>         IRC: vfeenstr or evilissimo
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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>>     Regards,
>>
>>     Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer
>>     RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D
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>     Regards,
>
>     Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer
>     RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D
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>     IRC: vfeenstr or evilissimo
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Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer
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Phone: +420 532 294 625
IRC: vfeenstr or evilissimo

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