CS 4.1.1 XenServer sysvm iso

[John Skinner <jo...@appcore.com>]

Hey List, 

We are having an issue where system vms (routers, ssvm, console proxy) are failing to boot. This is with CS 4.1.1, and XenServer 6.1. The VM gets created, and the sysvm iso gets mounted to the VM, however, the VM fails to boot from the iso, it just sits there. You can unmount the iso, and mount for example a CentOS ISO and it boots just fine. Has anyone else ran into this, or have any ideas? Thanks! 

Re: CS 4.1.1 XenServer sysvm iso

[John Skinner <jo...@appcore.com>]

Ok so that was my problem. My system vm template was set to Debian 5.0 32bit per 4.1.1 upgrade instructions. However, I noticed that the template is actually Debian 6.0. Also, XenServer does not have Debian 5.0 as an option for VMs OS type. I manually changed the OS type for the template and all existing system VMs (ssvm, console proxy, and domain routers) to Debian 6 32bit and now they are booting and working as expected.

I noticed that for 4.2 this will be avoided as the instructions state to set to highest supported hypervisor release for Debian 32 bit. 


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Skinner" <jo...@appcore.com>
To: "Kirk Kosinski" <ki...@gmail.com>
Cc: users@cloudstack.apache.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 9:02:41 AM
Subject: Re: CS 4.1.1 XenServer sysvm iso

Ok - that makes sense.

This is on an environment that we upgraded from 2.2.14 to 4.1.1. It had been running great for a week. So we decided to upgrade XenServer from 5.6sp2 to 6.1. Now we cant create anything based off the systemvm template. If the template is corrupt, what would be the best way to re apply it to the system?

Also, I noticed this in the logs when CS was trying to start a domain router:

2013-10-01 03:51:00,437 DEBUG [xen.resource.CitrixHelper] (DirectAgent-389:null) Can't find the guest os: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (32-bit) mapping into XenServer 6.1.0 guestOS type, start it as HVM guest

Is the systevm VM not Debian 5? I am wondering if that is my problem.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Kosinski" <ki...@gmail.com>
To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: "John Skinner" <jo...@appcore.com>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 6:53:31 PM
Subject: Re: CS 4.1.1 XenServer sysvm iso

Hi, John.  The systemvm.iso is not bootable.  If system VMs are failing
to boot, the system VM template may be corrupt.  Can you re-download it
and compare the MD5 to the ones on secondary storage and primary storage?

Best regards,
Kirk

On 09/30/2013 02:51 PM, John Skinner wrote:
> Hey List, 
> 
> We are having an issue where system vms (routers, ssvm, console proxy) are failing to boot. This is with CS 4.1.1, and XenServer 6.1. The VM gets created, and the sysvm iso gets mounted to the VM, however, the VM fails to boot from the iso, it just sits there. You can unmount the iso, and mount for example a CentOS ISO and it boots just fine. Has anyone else ran into this, or have any ideas? Thanks! 
> 
> 
> 

Re: CS 4.1.1 XenServer sysvm iso

[John Skinner <jo...@appcore.com>]

Ok - that makes sense.

This is on an environment that we upgraded from 2.2.14 to 4.1.1. It had been running great for a week. So we decided to upgrade XenServer from 5.6sp2 to 6.1. Now we cant create anything based off the systemvm template. If the template is corrupt, what would be the best way to re apply it to the system?

Also, I noticed this in the logs when CS was trying to start a domain router:

2013-10-01 03:51:00,437 DEBUG [xen.resource.CitrixHelper] (DirectAgent-389:null) Can't find the guest os: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (32-bit) mapping into XenServer 6.1.0 guestOS type, start it as HVM guest

Is the systevm VM not Debian 5? I am wondering if that is my problem.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Kosinski" <ki...@gmail.com>
To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: "John Skinner" <jo...@appcore.com>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 6:53:31 PM
Subject: Re: CS 4.1.1 XenServer sysvm iso

Hi, John.  The systemvm.iso is not bootable.  If system VMs are failing
to boot, the system VM template may be corrupt.  Can you re-download it
and compare the MD5 to the ones on secondary storage and primary storage?

Best regards,
Kirk

On 09/30/2013 02:51 PM, John Skinner wrote:
> Hey List, 
> 
> We are having an issue where system vms (routers, ssvm, console proxy) are failing to boot. This is with CS 4.1.1, and XenServer 6.1. The VM gets created, and the sysvm iso gets mounted to the VM, however, the VM fails to boot from the iso, it just sits there. You can unmount the iso, and mount for example a CentOS ISO and it boots just fine. Has anyone else ran into this, or have any ideas? Thanks! 
> 
> 
> 

Re: CS 4.1.1 XenServer sysvm iso

[Kirk Kosinski <ki...@gmail.com>]

Hi, John.  The systemvm.iso is not bootable.  If system VMs are failing
to boot, the system VM template may be corrupt.  Can you re-download it
and compare the MD5 to the ones on secondary storage and primary storage?

Best regards,
Kirk

On 09/30/2013 02:51 PM, John Skinner wrote:
> Hey List, 
> 
> We are having an issue where system vms (routers, ssvm, console proxy) are failing to boot. This is with CS 4.1.1, and XenServer 6.1. The VM gets created, and the sysvm iso gets mounted to the VM, however, the VM fails to boot from the iso, it just sits there. You can unmount the iso, and mount for example a CentOS ISO and it boots just fine. Has anyone else ran into this, or have any ideas? Thanks! 
> 
> 
> 

Re: CS 4.1.1 XenServer sysvm iso

[Kirk Jantzer <ki...@gmail.com>]

Could be a corrupt or wrong version of system vm iso?

Regards,

Kirk Jantzer
http://about.me/kirkjantzer
On Sep 30, 2013 5:52 PM, "John Skinner" <jo...@appcore.com> wrote:

> Hey List,
>
> We are having an issue where system vms (routers, ssvm, console proxy) are
> failing to boot. This is with CS 4.1.1, and XenServer 6.1. The VM gets
> created, and the sysvm iso gets mounted to the VM, however, the VM fails to
> boot from the iso, it just sits there. You can unmount the iso, and mount
> for example a CentOS ISO and it boots just fine. Has anyone else ran into
> this, or have any ideas? Thanks!
>
>
>