I am using Xen server instead of KVM. I tried to ping the VM's internal address, however it does not respond.
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > > > On 04/07/2014 03:10 PM, Rafael Weingartner wrote: > >> By agent you mean CS management server? I am running CS 4.1.1. >> > > No, in the KVM Agent. The hypervisor. > > /var/log/cloudstack/agent/agent.log > > > would the command cloudstack-ssh work, if the VM does not respond on its >> ip >> addresses? >> > > It probably has it's local 169.X.X.X address, so that should work. > > > Wido > > >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> >> wrote: >> >> >>> >>> On 04/07/2014 02:20 PM, Rafael Weingartner wrote: >>> >>> Thanks man ;). >>>> By any chance if a system VM does not get its ip assigned, would there >>>> be >>>> any way to debug and check what is going on? I mean, if after it is >>>> running >>>> on the physical host it does respond on the IP that was assigned to it. >>>> >>>> >>>> I say check the agent's log (set to debug!) and try to SSH into the >>> SSVM >>> with the cloudstack-ssh command. >>> >>> Wido >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 04/07/2014 12:33 AM, Rafael Weingartner wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi folks, >>>>> >>>>>> I was wondering how a system vm gets an IP address. I know they are >>>>>> the >>>>>> first things that CS needs in order to start up others VMs, so when >>>>>> they >>>>>> start there is no virtual router to assign IP addresses via DHCP. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Via a local virtio socket from the hypervisor in KVM mode. The VM >>>>>> boots >>>>>> >>>>> and via that local serial socket it gets the IP-address. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I also noticed that on the physical hosts with the VM.Start command >>>>> CS >>>>> >>>>> sends some extra data that includes the IPs that the VM should get. >>>>>> However, I have no idea how it actually gets those parameters and set >>>>>> its >>>>>> IP. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> The management server sends this information to the KVM agent. User >>>>> Instances get the IP address via DHCP from the VR, System VMs via the >>>>> local >>>>> serial socket. >>>>> >>>>> Wido >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone here know how it works? >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> -- Rafael Weingärtner
