[et-mgmt-tools] koan --virt error

Fri Jun 1 14:28:41 UTC 2007

Michael,

Thanks for your prompt reply, you were spot on. I set the selinux policy
to "permissive" in "system-config-security" and now all proceeds as
expected. No reboot required.

I can now install xen guests using koan.

One problem I have now is that the install fails if I include the
"xconfig" in the kickstart file as the xen instance doesn't have a
graphical display.

Does koan call virt-install to do the actual install? If it does then it
is just a matter of including the "--vnc" switch in the command line.

What do you suggest?

TIA and FYI I am really excited about the potential of using cobbler to
provision our real and virtual servers. I am also trying to work in
puppet for centralised configuration. This could be the answer to all my
(and my employers) prayers.

Exciting times indeed thanks to you and all the other OSS workers out
there

Cheers

Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: et-mgmt-tools-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:et-mgmt-tools-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan
Sent: 31 May 2007 3:47 PM
To: Fedora/Linux Management Tools
Subject: Re: [et-mgmt-tools] koan --virt error

hennesd wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I am trying to use "koan" to provision a xen guest instance but it is 
> failing and I can't work out why.
>
> I have imported my distros, created my profiles and that side of 
> things all seems to be fine.
>
> I have cobbler installed on a RHEL4 system and I am trying to create 
> the guest instance on a CentOS5.0 system. I can create a guest 
> instance using "virt-install" using the same config that koan uses and

> it all works fine.
>
> The output from koan follows:
>
> [root at gbw607su1041 ~]# koan -s 221.206.29.50 -x -p CentOS5.0-xen-i386 
> -V testy2
> - {'kickstart': 
> 'http://221.206.29.50/cblr/kickstarts/CentOS5.0-xen-i386/ks.cfg',
> 'name': 'CentOS5.0-xen-i386', 'virt_ram': 256, 'repos': [],
> 'kernel_options': 'ksdevice=eth0 lang=uk syslog=221.206.29.50:25150 
> text ', 'ks_meta': '', 'virt_file_size': 1, 'virt_paravirt': 'True',
> 'distro': 'CentOS5.0-xen-i386'}
> - fetching configuration for distro: CentOS5.0-xen-i386
> - {'kernel': 
> '/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS5.0/images/xen/vmlinuz',
> 'ks_meta': 'tree=http://221.206.29.50/cblr/links/CentOS5.0-xen-i386 ',
> 'breed': 'redhat', 'source_repos':
>
[['http://221.206.29.50/cobbler/ks_mirror/config/CentOS5.0-xen-i386-0.re
po', 'http://221.206.29.50/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS5.0'],
['http://221.206.29.50/cobbler/ks_mirror/config/CentOS5.0-xen-i386-1.rep
o', 'http://221.206.29.50/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS5.0']],
'kernel_options': 'ksdevice=eth0 lang=uk syslog=221.206.29.50:25150 text
', 'initrd':
'/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS5.0/images/xen/initrd.img', 'arch':
'x86', 'name': 'CentOS5.0-xen-i386'}
> - downloading initrd initrd.img to /tmp/initrd.img
> -
url=http://221.206.29.50/cobbler/images/CentOS5.0-xen-i386/initrd.img
> - downloading kernel vmlinuz to /tmp/vmlinuz
> - url=http://221.206.29.50/cobbler/images/CentOS5.0-xen-i386/vmlinuz
> - kernel saved = /tmp/vmlinuz
> - initrd saved = /tmp/initrd.img
> libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: (xend.err 'Error
> creating domain: Kernel image does not exist: /tmp/vmlinuz')
> Failed to create domain testy2
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 108, in
main
>     k.run()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 174, in
run
>     self.do_virt()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 306, in
> do_virt
>     return self.do_net_install("/tmp",after_download)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 275, in
> do_net_install
>     after_download(self, distro_data, profile_data)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 305, in
> after_download
>     self.do_virt_net_install(profile_data, distro_data)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 629, in
> do_virt_net_install
>     nameoverride=self.virtname
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/virtcreate.py", line
106,
> in start_paravirt_install
>     guest.start_install()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/ParaVirtGuest.py",
> line 220, in start_install
>     return XenGuest.XenGuest.start_install(self, consolecb)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/XenGuest.py", line
> 367, in start_install
>     self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(cxml, 0)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 251, in
> createLinux
>     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed')
> libvirtError: virDomainCreateLinux() failed
>
>
> As you may see, it says that "/tmp/vmlinuz" doesn't exist but I can 
> confirm that it does by inserting an "os.listdir( '/tmp' )" into the 
> code.
>
> Any clues?
>
> TIA
>
> Dan
>   

If SELinux is enabled, that's likely it. You can temporarily disable it 
if you like, though I'm working on fixing that now -- was going to hit 
that yesterday but I got sidetracked
by some other cobbler features.

If that's not it, let me know.

--Michael

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