I somehow overcome the balloon problem. What I did was I delete the system and profile by
cobbler system remove --name=<system_mac>
cobbler profile remove --name=<profile_name>
And I added again the profile but this time I gave --virt-ram-size=256 (as this was where koan reported warning earlier) and then I created system as I did previously.
Then I ran koan once again (as I did earlier) but now a new problem. It starts the virtual machine and ask me to connect to it via xm console. I did so but it hangs during acquiring ip address from dhcp. After sometime it ask me to give ip address manually I do so ( 10.1.1.45/255.255.255.0 gateway 10.1.1.1) but then it reports error in getting nfs:/10.1.1.1/rhel5/Dump/ks.cfg. I have figured out the problem. But don't know how to resolve it.
It is the same as I mentioned earlier. I have two network interfaces. One is eth1 (wireless device) and other is dummy0 (virtual network interface). All the communication of xen vm's with the xen dom0 is done via a bridge xenbr1 which is mapped to dummy0. And in the dhcpd.conf there is nothing for the subnet 10.1.1.0 and if I do manually (as of now cobbler is managing my dhcpd.con) it reports error and doesn't start dhcpd service. The error is logged into /var/log/messages and it is shown below:
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.5-RedHat
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: Wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases file.
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to leases file.
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: Wrote 0 leases to leases file.
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd:
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: No subnet declaration for eth1 (192.168.1.5).
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: ** Ignoring requests on eth1. If this is not what
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: you want, please write a subnet declaration
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: in your dhcpd.conf file for the network segment
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: to which interface eth1 is attached. **
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd:
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd:
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: Not configured to listen on any interfaces!
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd:
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org, please
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that before
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: requesting help.
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd:
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and have not
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: yet read the README, please read it before requesting help.
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: If you intend to request help from the dhcp-server@xxxxxxx
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: mailing list, please read the section on the README about
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: submitting bug reports and requests for help.
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd:
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: Please do not under any circumstances send requests for
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: help directly to the authors of this software - please
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: send them to the appropriate mailing list as described in
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: the README file.
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd:
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: exiting.
Mar 31 10:05:01 server dhcpd: dhcpd startup failed
If you want me to give some more information please feel free to ask.
Thanks in advance
Regards
SysAdmin
On 3/31/07, niyaz chistee
<prime.provogue@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well I thought that I should go the other way. So I did this:
Note: I have my RHEL5 Dump in /rhel5/Dump
cobbler distro add --name=rhel5 --kernel=/rhel5/Dump/images/xen/vmlinuz --initrd=/rhel5/Dump/images/initrd.img
This ran good. Then I did the following:
cobbler profile add --name=redhat5x --distro=rhel5 --kickstart=/rhel5/Dump/ks.cfg --virt-file-size=2 --virt-ram=128
cobbler system add --name=00:16:3E:5F:93:6A --profile=""
Okay Now I exported my /rhel5/Dump via NFS. Here's cat /etc/exports
/rhel5/Dump 10.1.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
For the sake of convience I am also posting my /rhel5/Dump/ks.cfg and /etc/dhcpd.conf
cat /etc/dhcpd.conf
# ******************************************************************
# Cobbler managed dhcpd.conf file
# generated from cobbler dhcp.conf template (Sat Mar 31 02:31:13 2007)
# ******************************************************************
ddns-update-style interim;
allow booting;
allow bootp;
ignore client-updates;
set vendorclass = option vendor-class-identifier;
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 192.168.1.5;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
range dynamic-bootp 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.254 ;
filename "/pxelinux.0";
default-lease-time 21600;
max-lease-time 43200;
next-server 10.1.1.1;
}
host label1 {
hardware ethernet 00:16:3E:5F:93:6A;
next-server 10.1.1.1;
}
cat /rhel5/Dump/ks.cfg
install
url --url nfs:10.1.1.1:/rhel5/Dump
key <I_AM_NOT_WRITING_IT>
lang en_US.UTF-8
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
rootpw --iscrypted $1$VwD9nalr$06K0bUawzanX72gNk0es91
firewall --disabled
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
selinux --disabled
timezone --utc Asia/Calcutta
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=xvda --append="console=xvc0"
# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
clearpart --all --drives=xvda
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 -->part pv.2 --size=0 --grow -->volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.2
logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow
logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=144 --grow --maxsize=288
%packages
@admin-tools
@base
@core
@dialup
@java
@system-tools
@text-internet
Now I started my portmap,tftp,nfs,httpd services and finally I started koan.
koan --virt --server=192.168.1.5 --profile="">It gave me this:
- processing profile: redhat5x
- fetching configuration for profile: redhat5x
- url="" href="http://192.168.1.5/cobbler/profiles/redhat5x" target="_blank" > http://192.168.1.5/cobbler/profiles/redhat5x
- {'kickstart': 'nfs://10.1.1.1/rhel5/Dump/ks.cfg', 'name': 'redhat5x', 'virt_ram': 128, 'repos': '', 'kernel_options': 'ksdevice=eth0 lang= syslog= 10.1.1.1:25150 text ', 'virt_file_size': 2, 'distro': 'rhel5-xen', 'virt_paravirt': 'True', 'ks_meta': ''}
- fetching configuration for distro: rhel5-xen
- url="" href="http://192.168.1.5/cobbler/distros/rhel5-xen" target="_blank" >http://192.168.1.5/cobbler/distros/rhel5-xen
- {'kernel': '/rhel5/Dump/images/xen/vmlinuz', 'ks_meta': '', 'breed': 'redhat', 'kernel_options': 'ksdevice=eth0 lang= syslog= 10.1.1.1:25150 text ', 'initrd': '/rhel5/Dump/images/xen/initrd.img', 'arch': 'x86', 'name': 'rhel5-xen'}
- downloading initrd initrd.img to /tmp/initrd.img
- url="" href="http://192.168.1.5/cobbler/images/rhel5-xen/initrd.img" target="_blank" >http://192.168.1.5/cobbler/images/rhel5-xen/initrd.img
- downloading kernel vmlinuz to /tmp/vmlinuz
- url="" href="http://192.168.1.5/cobbler/images/rhel5-xen/vmlinuz" target="_blank" > http://192.168.1.5/cobbler/images/rhel5-xen/vmlinuz
- kernel saved = /tmp/vmlinuz
- initrd saved = /tmp/initrd.img
- invalid RAM size specified, defaulting to 256 MB
libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: ( xend.err 'Error creating domain: The privileged domain did not balloon!')
Failed to create domain 00_16_3E_5C_D5_0C
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 97, in main
k.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 152, in run
self.do_virt()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 297, in do_virt
return self.do_net_install("/tmp",after_download)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 253, in do_net_install
after_download(self, distro_data, profile_data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 296, in after_download
self.do_virt_net_install(profile_data, distro_data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 600, in do_virt_net_install
extra=kextra
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/virtcreate.py", line 102, in start_paravirt_install
guest.start_install()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/ParaVirtGuest.py", line 220, in start_install
return XenGuest.XenGuest.start_install(self, consolecb)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/XenGuest.py", line 367, in start_install
self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(cxml, 0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 249, in createLinux
if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed')
libvirtError: virDomainCreateLinux() failed
I don't know what happened during the ballon but it didn't created the virtual machine I was expecting.
One more thing I would like to through light on is that I have configured a virtual dummy0 network interface which is bridged to xenbr1. Here's my ifconfig(not shown are the xen virtual interfaces):
dummy0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F6:42:E2:23:B6:57
inet addr:10.1.1.1 Bcast: 10.1.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::f442:e2ff:fe23:b657/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:154 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7438 (7.2 KiB) TX bytes:11815 (11.5 KiB)
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:02:4B:70:05
inet addr: 192.168.1.5 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::213:2ff:fe4b:7005/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:318 errors:0 dropped:45 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:336 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:173630 (169.5 KiB) TX bytes:30388 ( 29.6 KiB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe000 Memory:b0200000-b0200fff
All my xen related network stuff is handled by dummy0 and it is then masqureaded to eth1. I think there is problem with /etc/dhcpd.conf regarding eth1 and dummy0. I am not getting it.
Please through some light.
RegardsOn 3/31/07, niyaz chistee < prime.provogue@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi,
I am trying to configure cobbler to configure my xen virtual machines. I tried to import the installation tree of rhel5 from cobbler using the command:
cobbler import --mirror=/rhel5/Dump/ --mirror-name=rhel5
It ran for sometime mirroring my rpm's and in last it ended up with this:
sent 2597509927 bytes received 50280 bytes 8644127.14 bytes/sec
total size is 2596994302 speedup is 1.00
- creating new distro: rhel5
- creating new profile: rhel5
- running repo update on /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/rhel5
- no comps file found: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/rhel5/repodata/comps.xml
- modifying existing distro: rhel5
- modifying existing profile: rhel5
- running repo update on /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/rhel5
- no comps file found: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/rhel5/repodata/comps.xml
- creating new distro: rhel5-xen
- creating new profile: rhel5-xen
- running repo update on /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/rhel5
- no comps file found: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/rhel5/repodata/comps.xml
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 502, in main
BootCLI( sys.argv).run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 102, in run
self.curry_args(self.args[1:], self.commands['toplevel'])
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 418, in curry_args
commands[args[0]](args[1:])
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 312, in import_tree
return self.apply_args(args,commands,on_ok)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 406, in apply_args
on_ok()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 311, in <lambda>
go_import()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 304, in go_import
self.temp_mirror_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 152, in import_tree
return importer.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/action_import.py", line 82, in run
self.guess_kickstarts()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/action_import.py", line 139, in guess_kickstarts
results = self.scan_rpm_filename(rpm)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/action_import.py", line 186, in scan_rpm_filename
major = int(major)
ValueError: invalid literal for int(): 5Server
I don't know what this is all about. But when I ran cobbler report it showed me this:
[root@server cobbler]# cobbler report
distro : rhel5
kernel : /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/rhel5/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
initrd : /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/rhel5/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
kernel options : {}
architecture : x86
ks metadata : {}
breed : redhat
distro : rhel5-xen
kernel : /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/rhel5/images/xen/vmlinuz
initrd : /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/rhel5/images/xen/initrd.img
kernel options : {}
architecture : x86
ks metadata : {}
breed : redhat
profile : rhel5
distro : rhel5
kickstart : /etc/cobbler/default.ks
kernel options : {}
ks metadata : {}
virt file size : 5
virt ram : 512
virt paravirt : True
repos :
profile : rhel5-xen
distro : rhel5-xen
kickstart : /etc/cobbler/default.ks
kernel options : {}
ks metadata : {}
virt file size : 5
virt ram : 512
virt paravirt : True
repos :
That means it has created the distro and profile part. Is that perfect or something is missing.
Please help.
Regards
SysAdmin
