Hi,
I'm trying to install Vyatta Core 6.4 as a XenServer VM. I'm following this guide: http://www.vyatta.org/getting-started/how-to-install.
I've done it many times before with no issues. Now everything is fine until domU change to PV. Then Vyatta doesn't boot properly :( File system is being mounted as read-only so nothing works afterwards. After reboot sometimes it succeeds but then at the next boot it is again read-only.
Starting Vyatta router: migrate rl-system firewall configure [ 10.833995] end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 4457520 [ 10.834019] end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 4457520 [ 10.834064] Aborting journal on device xvda1-8. [ 10.853653] EXT4-fs error (device xvda1): ext4_journal_start_sb:296: Detected aborted journal [ 10.853694] EXT4-fs (xvda1): Remounting filesystem read-only [ 10.853788] journal commit I/O error failed! chmod: changing permissions of `/': Read-only file system startpar: service(s) returned failure: vyatta-router ... failed!
I assign 8 GB of virtual disk as I always did and XenTools of course are installed prior to the HVM to PV migration. Has anything changed in the installation procedure maybe?
Thanks,
Docent
I have same problem with Vyatta 6.4 on Xenserver 6.0.2.
You have to add the nobarrier option for / in fstab :
/etc/fstab
# UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM
UUID=32649221-... / ext4 noatime,nobarrier 0 1
xenfs /proc/xen xenfs defaults 0 0
Thanks it solves problem. I think it should be supplemented to http://www.vyatta.org/getting-started/how-to-install page.
And for properly working button reboot VM in XenCenter need to replace in file /etc/inittab
to
renow, thanks a ton :) Works like a charm. It's a pity Vyatta did not put this into Release Notes or something...
Also, unpropable, thanks for a reboot tip :)
Regards,
Docent
I'm facing the same problem on XS 6.0... But I cannot complete a single boot after the HVM to PV migration, so I'm not able to fix fstab.
Any suggestion?
Thanks in advance
Fix it before the conversion procedure, I think I did so.
Regards,
Docent
Obvious, fix it before... sorry I give an incomplete explanation.
I was trying to install the image-mode that mounts the root on squashfs, but the nobarrier option doesn't help in this case.
I've switched to disk-mode ("install system" instead of "install image"), fixed fstab and everything is ok.
Thanks to all who contributed to this thread. saved me lots of pain! :lol:
I'm trying to install Vyatta Core 6.4 as a XenServer VM. I'm following this guide: http://www.vyatta.org/getting-started/how-to-install.
I have xenserver 6.02 and use the following iso:
vyatta-livecd-virt_VC6.4-2012.05.31_i386.iso
Do i have also do the last steps of the getting-started/how-to-install document ?
Then, using XenCenter, on the server's console -
Determine the UUID of the VM by running the following command:
xe vm-list name-label=
where is the name that you have assigned to the VM. Use that UUID in the following commands:
xe vm-param-set uuid= HVM-boot-policy=
xe vm-param-set uuid= PV-bootloader=pygrub
Next, determine the UUID of the root filesystem virtual block device by running the following command:
xe vbd-list vm-name-label=
Here again, is the name you have assigned to the VM. If the program displays more than one virtual block device, the first usually holds the root filesystem. Use the UUID of this device in the following command:
xe vbd-param-set uuid= bootable=true
When i do the xenserver console steps i get this error when boot the Vyatta VM:
12-8-2012 14:42:45 Error: Starting VM 'Vyatta-2' - Traceback (most recent call last): - File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 850, in ? - raise RuntimeError, "Unable to find partition containing kernel" - RuntimeError: Unable to find partition containing kernel
When i install the xentools i only get a message:
setting up xen-tools......
adding the nobarrier to the fstab don't make a different.
Can someone give me all the necessary steps to install Vyatta on Xenserver 6.02 ?
This tip helped me too. Thanks guys!! :)
I don't understand where should i put this? in xenserver or in vyatta?
@manchi: that fstab modification goes in the VC installation, not XenServer.
Is this the UUID=32649221-... all the same or I need to find the UID of my vm?
No, open up the file and look at it. All you have to add is ",nobarrier" after the "noatime". Leave the rest alone (it will already have the UUID).