I see the qcow2 is now compressed, thanks. You can probably skip
putting it in a bz2 now, it's about the same size.
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm. I think I was deceived by the /etc/init directory existing. I'm
> not sure why it's there, but I don't think the template is using
> upstart. I'm having a hard time reliably recreating the issue, but I
> think it's related to other reports where the default gateway is
> missing (I've seen this myself on a secondary storage VM, but it went
> away when I rebooted it, and couldn't get the problem to come back).
> This happens unrelated to any changes I'm making.
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> After reading a little more about upstart, I don't think this script
>> does anything. I'm not entirely sure at the moment however how best to
>> ensure that networking starts after cloud-early-config, short of
>> converting cloud-early-config to an upstart script. It looks like this
>> debian build is using upstart just for networking, and everything else
>> uses the standard sysvinit ordering.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
