Hi Andrew, That's pretty strange. I am not a KVM expert, so I don't know what happens under the hood when you disable cache. Have you tried doing a FULL install? Best regards, Martijn On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Andrew Holway <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > Fri Aug 31 19:06:00 2012: Request 2699 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by a.holway@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Queue: Bright > Subject: NFSoRDMA not working with KVM when cache disabled > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: a.holway@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Status: new > Ticket <URL: > http://support.brightcomputing.com/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=2699 > > > > Hi, > > I am trying to host KVM machines on an NFSoRDMA mount. > > This works: > > -drive file=/mnt/vm001.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw > -device > virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 > > This Doesn't! > > -drive > file=/mnt/vm001.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,cache=none > -device > virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=2 > > Any ideas why this could be? > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > > > dmesg: > > vda: > vda: vda1 > vda: vda1 > vda: vda1 vda2 > vda: vda1 vda2 > vda: vda1 vda2 vda3 > vda: vda1 vda2 vda3 > vda: vda1 vda2 vda3 vda4 < > > vda: vda1 vda2 vda3 vda4 < > > vda: vda1 vda2 vda3 vda4 < vda5 > > vda: vda1 vda2 vda3 vda4 < vda5 > > vda: vda1 vda2 vda3 vda4 < vda5 vda6 > > vda: vda1 vda2 vda3 vda4 < vda5 vda6 > > Adding 15998968k swap on /dev/vda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:15998968k > EXT3-fs (vda1): error: can't find ext3 filesystem on dev vda1. > > /var/log/messages > > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: Mounting disks. > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: Updating device status: mounting > disks > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: Detecting device '/dev/sda': not > found > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: Detecting device '/dev/hda': not > found > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: Detecting device '/dev/vda': found > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: swapon /dev/vda5 > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: mkdir -p /localdisk/ > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) kernel: Adding 15998968k swap on /dev/vda5. > Priority:-1 extents:1 across:15998968k > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: Mounting /dev/vda1 on /localdisk/ > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: mount -t ext3 -o > defaults,noatime,nodiratime /dev/vda1 /localdisk/ > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, > bad superblock on /dev/vda1, > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: missing codepage or helper > program, or other error > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: In some cases useful info is > found in syslog - try > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: dmesg | tail or so > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: Command failed. > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: Running: "mount -t ext3 -o > defaults,noatime,nodiratime /dev/vda1 /localdisk/" failed: > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: Non zero exit code: 32 > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) kernel: EXT3-fs (vda1): error: can't find ext3 > filesystem on dev vda1. > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: Failed to mount disks. (Exit code > 12, signal 0) > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: There was a fatal problem. This > node can not be installed until the problem is corrected. > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: The error was: failed to mount disks > Aug 31 18:53:46 (none) node-installer: Updating device status: failed to > mount disks > > Aug 31 18:53:28 (none) node-installer: Creating primary partition > /dev/vda3. > Aug 31 18:53:28 (none) node-installer: parted -s -- /dev/vda mkpart > primary ext3 22530 24578 > Aug 31 18:53:28 (none) kernel: vda: vda1 vda2 vda3 > Aug 31 18:53:28 (none) node-installer: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vda3 bs=1k > count=4 > Aug 31 18:53:28 (none) node-installer: 4+0 records in > Aug 31 18:53:28 (none) node-installer: 4+0 records out > Aug 31 18:53:28 (none) node-installer: 4096 bytes (4.1 kB) copied, > 0.000842261 s, 4.9 MB/s > Aug 31 18:53:28 (none) node-installer: Running partprobe on device: > /dev/vda > Aug 31 18:53:28 (none) kernel: vda: vda1 vda2 vda3 > > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: Creating ext3 filesystem on > /dev/vda3 > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: mke2fs -j /dev/vda3 > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: Filesystem label= > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: OS type: Linux > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: Block size=4096 (log=2) > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: Fragment size=4096 (log=2) > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 > blocks > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: 125184 inodes, 499968 blocks > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: 24998 blocks (5.00%) reserved for > the super user > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: First data block=0 > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: Maximum filesystem blocks=515899392 > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: 16 block groups > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: 32768 blocks per group, 32768 > fragments per group > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: 7824 inodes per group > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: Superblock backups stored on blocks: > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: #01132768, 98304, 163840, 229376, > 294912 > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: Writing inode tables: > 0/16#010#010#010#010#010 1/16#010#010#010#010#010 2/16#010#010#010#010#010 > 3/16#010#010#010#010#010 4/16#010#010#010#010#010 5/16#010#010#010#010#010 > 6/16#010#010#010#010#010 7/16#010#010#010#010#010 8/16#010#010#010#010#010 > 9/16#010#010#010#010#01010/16#010#010#010#010#01011/16#010#010#010#010#01012/16#010#010#010#010#01013/16#010#010#010#010#01014/16#010#010#010#010#01015/16#010#010#010#010#010done > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: Creating journal (8192 blocks): done > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: Writing superblocks and filesystem > accounting information: done > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: This filesystem will be > automatically checked every 24 mounts or > Aug 31 18:53:45 (none) node-installer: 180 days, whichever comes first. > Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html