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

Vinzenz Feenstra vfeenstr at redhat.com
Thu Feb 12 10:58:21 UTC 2015


On 02/12/2015 11:42 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 11:37 +0100, Vinzenz Feenstra wrote:
>> 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?
> Ahm, is 5.11 > 5.5? Or am I missing something?
I guess you misunderstand the fact that he wanted to know if he can just 
update the VM or if he has to reinstall it.
And yes 5.11 > 5.5
>
> /K
>
>> Upgrade and reboot would solve the issue for you.
>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Vinzenz Feenstra
>>> <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> 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>
>>>          > >         > To: "John Michael Mercado"
>>>          > >         > <jm.mercado25 at gmail.com>, "Lev Veyde"
>>>          > >         > <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
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>>>          > >         >
>>>          > >         >
>>>          > >
>>>          > >
>>>          > >
>>>          > >         --
>>>          > >         Regards,
>>>          > >
>>>          > >         Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer
>>>          > >         RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D
>>>          > >         Phone: +420 532 294 625
>>>          > >         IRC: vfeenstr or evilissimo
>>>          > >
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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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>>
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>> Regards,
>>
>> Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer
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