I figured it out, I was using shared mount points because I was trying to use NFS over RDMA (Infiniband, it doesn't support locking :( ). I switched the primary over to NFS over Infiniband but using IPoIB (Ethernet instead of RDMA). Now the System VM's are booting correctly. Thanks for your help.
v/r Sean On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Musayev, Ilya <imusa...@webmd.net> wrote: > Sean, > > Please see response in line. > > > I am not seeing any splash screen, I see the Seabios screens and then > the PIX > > boot line, then GRUB loading stage2.. and the KVM process eats 100% of > one > > of the cores for about 5 minutes, then the management server tries to > > restart. I am using CS 4.0.2 > > > > 0) acton-systemvm-02062012.qcow2.bz2 > This image has been used countless times by many folks, perhaps something > is unique in your environment that could cause this problem? > > > 1) I will try this, I ran qemu-img check on all the image files and they > all are > > fine (I did a virsh dumpxml s-1-vm and looked at the disk it was > referencing), > > I have also reinstalled SystemVM as per installation directions. > > 2) I cannot even get it to let me get to a point where it will let me > edit grub > > boot parameters. > > > > 3) Like I said above the System VM doesn't even show me a splash screen. > You don't need grub to function in this case, since you are booting off > linux rescue cd to repair grub. > > > > > I have reinstalled management and system templates and am trying it > again. > > I will also try to run the system VM's by command line and see if it > works > > from command line. I had everything working with basic networking, as > soon > > as I switch it over to advance networking (using VLAN) is when this > started > > happening. > The issue between switching from basic to advanced and router VM makes no > sense. The only thing that would change is the metadata details vm will use > to boot with, but that comes after GRUB. > > > > > v/r > > Sean > > > > > > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Musayev, Ilya <imusa...@webmd.net> > > wrote: > > > > > Sean, > > > > > > Specifically what versions of SVM are you running? Do you see a splash > > > screen and when you press enter or wait for time out - for this issue > > > to occur? > > > > > > 0) if splash screen is seen and you can make changes to boot linux, > > > remove the "quiet" flag from initrd line to see if you can get more > > > meaningful errors > > > > > > 1) I would suggest to change the storage controllers to see if it > > > makes any difference. > > > > > > 2) I've seen in past " GRUB loading stage2" error would occur when > > > grub.conf reference initrd or kernel version that no longer exists > > > (filename mismatch). Go into the edit mode, remove the version in > > > front of initrd and vmlinuz and try to use auto-completion (TAB-TAB) > > > to complete the filename and boot again. > > > > > > 3) If nothing helps, I would have tried to boot it into a single user > > > mode with linux rescue disk and reinstall grub - just to confirm if > > > its grub related or something else. > > > > > > Let me know how it goes, > > > > > > Regards > > > ilya > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Sean Truman [mailto:stru...@gmail.com] > > > > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 12:16 PM > > > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > > > > Subject: System VM's hanging > > > > > > > > All, > > > > > > > > My system VM's are hanging at GRUB loading stage2.. using KVM as > > > > hypervisor any idea why this is happening? > > > > > > > > v/r > > > > Sean > > > > > > > >
