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[Rogério Vinhal Nunes <rogervn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That pretty much solved the disk image problem, thanks. You really should
put that in the official documentation, that is no trace of that option in
it.

But it's still not working. After that I had to change the
libvirt.xml.template to use sda instead of xvda in the root option. There
should be sda in the root option or xvda in the disk option, mixing both of
them, as of is happening right now, will never work.

Even after this small setup, it won't work. ttylinux image boots and
complains about not being able to reach IP 169.254.169.254 (I've done the
PREROUTING iptables configuration in the compute nodes), and stalls just
after the "setting shared object cache" with no console opened:

-----------
startup crond  [  OK  ]
wget: can't connect to remote host (169.254.169.254): Network is unreachable
cloud-userdata: failed to read instance id
===== cloud-final: system completely up in 31.15 seconds ====
wget: can't connect to remote host (169.254.169.254): Network is unreachable
wget: can't connect to remote host (169.254.169.254): Network is unreachable
wget: can't connect to remote host (169.254.169.254): Network is unreachable
  instance-id:
  public-ipv4:
  local-ipv4 :
=> First-Boot Sequence:
setting shared object cache [running ldconfig]  [  OK  ]
-----------

The ubuntu image does almost the same, but nothing to do with networking, it
mounts the ext4 filesystem and then just hangs with no console:

-----------
[    0.160477] md: ... autorun DONE.
[    0.160659] EXT3-fs (sda): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported
optional features (240)
[    0.160909] EXT2-fs (sda): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported
optional features (240)
[    0.161908] EXT4-fs (sda): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Opts: (null)
[    0.161930] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 202:0.
[    0.178088] devtmpfs: mounted
[    0.178195] Freeing unused kernel memory: 828k freed
[    0.178425] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k
[    0.183386] Freeing unused kernel memory: 308k freed
[    0.184074] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1612k freed
mountall: Disconnected from Plymouth
------------

Both of them are assigned IPs for the configured nova-network in the
"euca-describe-instances", but none of them ping back.

I feel I'm getting really close to get this working. If you guys could lend
me a little more help I would be very much appreciated.

Em 4 de outubro de 2011 09:12, Vishvananda Ishaya
<vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>escreveu:

> You may need to set --nouse_cow_images
> Sounds like your image might be a copy on write qcow2 with a backing file.
> You can verify that with qemu-img info /var/lib/nova/instances/disk
> That kind of image won't work with xen.
> On Oct 3, 2011 9:44 AM, "Rogério Vinhal Nunes" <rogervn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hey guys, I'm still trying to get this working, but I still don't
> understand
> > what's happening.
> >
> > In the ttylinux busybox I do a fdisk -l and it says the disk is only 18
> MB
> > large and doesn't have a valid partition table:
> >
> > ------------
> > / # fdisk -l
> >
> > Disk /dev/sda: 18 MB, 18874368 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> > Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table
> > ------------
> >
> > When looking in the instance directory as I said before, the image is
> only
> > 18 MB large (while I think ttylinux should be 24 MB), this may be a
> problem.
> > I'm using glance as a image server and mounted the /var/lib/instances
> using
> > NFS from the cloud controller.
> >
> > What can I do to get more information? I need to get this configuration
> > working.
> >
> > Em 28 de setembro de 2011 15:50, Rogério Vinhal Nunes
> > <rogervn@xxxxxxxxxxx>escreveu:
> >
> >> Yes, I've tried the ttylinux right now, it starts the instance, but it
> >> booted up a busybox, probably a recover from initrd (see output in the
> end
> >> of this e-maill). I can access the instance by doing a xl console in the
> >> host, describe-instances shows the status "running test".
> >>
> >> I've successfully booted a separated vm with an old image I used with
> Xen
> >> with Xen + libvirt just changing the openstack's libvirt.xml. It just
> works
> >> fine.
> >>
> >> The instance dir in /var/lib/nova/instances files look like this:
> >>
> >> 0 -rw-r----- 1 nova nogroup 0 2011-09-28 15:43 console.log
> >> 15M -rw-r--r-- 1 nova nogroup 18M 2011-09-28 15:43 disk
> >> 4,3M -rw-r--r-- 1 nova nogroup 4,3M 2011-09-28 15:43 kernel
> >> 4,0K -rw-r--r-- 1 nova nogroup 1,3K 2011-09-28 15:43 libvirt.xml
> >> 5,7M -rw-r--r-- 1 nova nogroup 5,7M 2011-09-28 15:43 ramdisk
> >>
> >> this is the last output I get when I get into the instance console:
> >>
> >> [ 0.078066] blkfront: sda: barriers enabled
> >> [ 0.078394] sda: unknown partition table
> >> [ 0.170040] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vkbd/0
> >> [ 0.170051] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vfb/0
> >> [ 0.170056] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/console/0
> >> [ 0.170074] Magic number: 1:252:3141
> >> [ 0.170114] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.35/drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to
> >> open rtc device (rtc0)
> >> [ 0.170122] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
> >> [ 0.170127] EDD information not available.
> >> [ 0.170259] Freeing unused kernel memory: 828k freed
> >> [ 0.170460] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k
> >> [ 0.173975] Freeing unused kernel memory: 308k freed
> >> [ 0.174481] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1620k freed
> >> badness occurred in ramdisk
> >>
> >>
> >> BusyBox v1.15.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.15.3-1ubuntu5) built-in shell (ash)
> >> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
> >>
> >> /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
> >> / #
> >> / #
> >>
> >>
> >> Em 28 de setembro de 2011 14:06, Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >escreveu:
> >>
> >> Can u try with the ttylinux images and see if those work for you?
> >>>
> >>> I know when I tried it I had to adjust the libvirt xml was creating
> (which
> >>> may have not been the right solution) to get those to work.
> >>>
> >>> I think the ttylinux ones might work better (from the last time I
> tried).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 9/27/11 7:11 PM, "Todd Deshane" <todd.deshane@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 2011/9/27 Rogério Vinhal Nunes <rogervn@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>> > Hello, I've upgraded to Diablo to see if this issue was resolved, but
> >>> > apparently it isn't.
> >>> >
> >>> > There is already a thread talking about it, but it didn't come to a
> >>> solution
> >>> > that I could use. After having Openstack configured with Xen and
> libvirt
> >>> in
> >>> > Ubuntu 10.04 whenever I run an instance it is started, but it stops
> with
> >>> a
> >>> > kernel panic trying to mount root by using xvda, but sda is the only
> >>> > available.
> >>> >
> >>> > I'm using Diablo's nova + glance and the
> >>> > ubuntu1010-UEC-localuser-image.tar.gz from the manual.
> >>> >
> >>> > The kernel panic is like this:
> >>> >
> >>> > [ 0.170563] VFS: Cannot open root device "xvda" or unknown-block(0,0)
> >>> > [ 0.170572] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the
> >>> > available partitions:
> >>> > [ 0.170585] ca00 32768 sda driver: vbd
> >>> > [ 0.170594] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
> >>> on
> >>> > unknown-block(0,0)
> >>> > [ 0.170604] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.35-24-virtual
> >>> > #42-Ubuntu
> >>> >
> >>> > I've played with libvirt.xml.template, it changed a lot since Cactus,
> so
> >>> I
> >>> > tried to replace xvda with sda, and the kernel panic didn't go away,
> >>> just
> >>> > changed a little:
> >>> >
> >>> > [ 0.161237] List of all partitions:
> >>> > [ 0.161248] ca00 32768 sda driver: vbd
> >>> > [ 0.161257] No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext3 ext2 ext4
> >>> > fuseblk
> >>> > [ 0.161275] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
> >>> on
> >>> > unknown-block(202,0)
> >>> > [ 0.161286] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.35-24-virtual
> >>> > #42-Ubuntu
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> Are you able to start a guest manually with Xen + libvirt (without
> >>> OpenStack)?
> >>>
> >>> That's the first step to debugging this issue.
> >>>
> >>> > I've tried using --xenapi_remap_vbd_dev=true, but it didn't work (it
> >>> > wouldn't also because I'm using libvirt, not xenapi).
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> Would XCP or XenServer work for you in general? (The XenAPI-based
> >>> hypervisors are more tested and even have more features compared with
> >>> libvirt - http://wiki.openstack.org/XenAPI)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Or even Project Kronos (also uses XCP/XenServer toolstack)
> >>> http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/07/22/project-kronos/
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Todd
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Todd Deshane
> >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/deshantm
> >>> http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html
> >>> http://runningxen.com/
> >>>
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