Just to be clear, that script may have no effect whatsoever, and I'm
not sure how to verify other than rebooting a bunch of times. I don't
have the time to do that at the moment.
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There may be one other minor thing that needs to be addressed. In
> getting rid of the patchdisk, my networking on the router is a bit
> inconsistent. It looks like maybe networking is starting before
> cloud-early-config completes, as /etc/network/interfaces looks right,
> but I don't always get an ip on eth0.
>
> I know next to nothing about upstart, and haven't had a chance to test
> much, so if someone else can help that would be great. I've tried this
> though and it worked the two times I rebooted, after 70% failures on
> reboot. It goes it /etc/init/cloud-early-config-wait.conf
>
> ----- script start here ----
> #cloud-early-config-wait
> start on (starting networking or starting network-interface)
> instance $JOB
>
> script
>
> start cloud-early-config || true
>
> # Waiting forever is ok.. upstart will kill this job when
> # the service we tried to start above either starts or stops
> while sleep 3600 ; do :; done
>
> end script
> ----script end here---
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Rohit Yadav <bhais...@apache.org> wrote:
>>> Thanks a lot Marcus, your findings have been useful. I've applied the
>>> locale fix and a grub2 boot timeout fix (systemvms should boot 5
>>> seconds faster now).
>>> Alright so far we're good, tested and systemvm seems to work on KVM
>>> (Marcus) and Xen, anyone to help us with VMWare?
>>>
>>> Marcus, about the qemu-ga, we need to patch all our templates as per
>>> systemvm type (ssvm, cpvm or rvm), for that we're using the
>>> systemvm.iso to patch the template appliance and we reboot once
>>> patching is done successfully in cloud-early-config. So, with using
>>> qemu-ga or our own daemon (assumming through socket we already got
>>> authorized key), do we want to make mgmt server or host copy the
>>> scripts inside the systemvm or just continue using current patching
>>> mechanism that uses the iso to mount and patch? Marcus can you share
>>> how we can use the new systemvm on devcloud-kvm (osx/vmware-fusion).
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>
>> I think the systemvm.iso is a completely fine way of getting new code
>> onto the system vms. My main goal at this point was to just get rid of
>> the patch disk portion. Also, since it sounds like we're wanting to
>> move to a link-local API to control the system vms I think we'll
>> forego qemu-guest-agent or putting our own daemon on the virtio serial
>> device and simply use it to copy the cmdline/authorized keys.
>>
>> If this updated system vm checks out, I'll update the devcloud-kvm
>> packages with it preinstalled, replacing the older one. Or in the
>> meantime what I've been doing is simply downloading yours and moving
>> it into place over the existing one, giving it the same name, before
>> deploying anything.
>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Oh, and I have yet to test all of the vpc functions, but so far so
>>>> good. I was able to bring up the VPC, it got it's gateways all
>>>> configured, and my public ip with portforwarding rule/ acl to allow 22
>>>> in worked.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Rohit, I think I tracked down why the router keeps rebooting. When it
>>>>> comes up, the first thing we do is run get_template_version.sh, which
>>>>> replies:
>>>>>
>>>>> /bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
>>>>> Cloudstack Release 4.2.0 Tue Mar 5 13:17:51 UTC
>>>>> 2013&a8af8cdd546e575e64f69b6f80ef949c
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like we don't like that locale warning:
>>>>>
>>>>> GetDomRVersionAnswer":{"result":false,"details":"bash: warning:
>>>>> setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)"
>>>>>
>>>>> I can fix it by running this in the system vm:
>>>>>
>>>>> locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Chiradeep Vittal
>>>>> <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> wrote:
>>>>>> OK, one more niggle about the previous system vm. We tried to enable
>>>>>> aesni
>>>>>> [1] to boost encryption performance (ipsec vpn, anything ssl), but the
>>>>>> system vm would crash on Vmware if we did that (hence the module
>>>>>> blacklisted). Could someone try the new systemvm on VMWare with aesni
>>>>>> enabled? I believe it is as simple as
>>>>>> modprobe aesni_intel and
>>>>>> openssl 1.0.1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 3/4/13 10:46 PM, "Rohit Yadav" <bhais...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thanks to Mate
>>>>>>>(blogs.citrix.com/2012/10/04/convert-a-raw-image-to-xenserver-vhd/)
>>>>>>>I'm able to ship appliances that work for Xen. Chiradeep, there is no
>>>>>>>need to use the powershell hack now, if people still want vhdx, they
>>>>>>>can use that hack. The current appliance for Xen (vbox->raw->vhd)
>>>>>>>works.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>At least appliance for HyperV and Xen works:
>>>>>>>http://jenkins.cloudstack.org/job/build-systemvm-master/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I've tested and found that:
>>>>>>>- patching happens
>>>>>>>- password server works
>>>>>>>- apache was running, user data works
>>>>>>>- template creation works
>>>>>>>- snapshot to template works
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I won't be able to test VPC/advance zone of DevCloud, ipv6 etc.
>>>>>>>someone from QA would have to help.
>>>>>>>Thanks Marcus for your suggestion, will compress qcow2 and test on KVM
>>>>>>>today.
>>>>>>>I need help on testing/fixing VMWare systemvm template appliance.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Ahmad :) all natural:
>>>>>>>http://highlatencylife.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/awesomesauce.png
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Regards.
>>>>>>>PS. Was AFK yesterday, down with flu, much better now.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Chiradeep Vittal
>>>>>>><chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 3/1/13 4:03 AM, "Rohit Yadav" <bhais...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>- Saw systemvms started from the template, saw patching happening,
>>>>>>>>>logged in with creds (root/password) to verify that it was indeed the
>>>>>>>>>new one (Linux 3.2 :)
>>>>>>>>>- The agents were running fine, there was a latency issue (agents were
>>>>>>>>>lagging behind)
>>>>>>>>>- (Applied a fix describe on CLOUDSTACK-1370 to make the deployVM
>>>>>>>>>work) VR came up, did it's SDN magic and tinyLinux was deployed
>>>>>>>>>- Console proxy worked for me as well
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I would also test
>>>>>>>> - password server
>>>>>>>> - user data management (is apache web server running?)
>>>>>>>> In addition
>>>>>>>> - zone-to-zone template copy
>>>>>>>> - template creation
>>>>>>>> - convert snapshot to template
>>>>>>>> - vpc
>>>>>>>> - ipv6
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Chiradeep, is there a way to convert VHD (HyperV) to VHD (Xen), I hear
>>>>>>>>>that they both differ in some magic bits?
>>>>>>>> Actually since we intend to support Windows 2012, we should be using
>>>>>>>>VHDX.
>>>>>>>> There's a way to do it with Powershell (from vhd(hyper-v) -> vhdx)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2012/10/03/using-powershel
>>>>>>>>l-
>>>>>>>> to-convert-a-vhd-to-a-vhdx.aspx
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
