[Spacewalk-list] Child channel subscriptions of migrated KVM nodes

[James Hogarth]

I've done something similar and you don't need to reregister. Will post
details when in office in a couple of hours.

On 25 Aug 2010 00:20, "Colin Coe" <colin.coe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Ian Forde <ianforde at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all - strange question here...
>>
>> Server: Spacewalk 1.1 (freshly upgraded, but I've also experienced this
>> on Spacewalk 1.0)
>>
>> I had 2 sets of VMware Server boxes, called vmserver 1-4.  vmserver1/2
>> utilized the same NFS storage for nodes, and vmserver3/4 utilized a
>> separate NFS share, so that they could share nodes.  Last week I
>> migrated the whole shebang over to KVM.  (Twas a little painful, as each
>> VM had to be hand-tweaked after booting from iso, but whatever...)
>>
>> Anyhoo - I ended up having to delete the guest registrations from
>> Spacewalk as they didn't show up as being fully virtualized.  (I checked
>> the archives and found that someone else ran into this and fixed it by
>> tweaking Oracle directly - I'm not one to reach into Oracle to do that
>> so...)
>>
>> I reregistered the systems and resubscribed them to the appropriate
>> Software Channels, Configuration Channels, and Groups.  The problem is
>> that the Software Channel subscriptions show with the "red star", and a
>> note at the bottom stating: "NOTE: These channels are not part of the
>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription for this guest's host, vmserver1.
>> Subscribing to them will consume additional software entitlements.
>> Applying a different virtual system entitlement to the host system will
>> affect which channels have this mark."
>>
>> ???
>>
>> So I've set vmserver1 to use the Virtualization Platform - no change.
>> Just Virtualization?  No change.  What's going on here?
>>
>> oh - and when I change the entitlement for vmserver1, it gives a message
>> about having done some other things under the hood with a
>> link-to-nowhere promising details...
>>
>>        -I
>
> Are you saying you migrated from VMware to RHEL KVM, meaning
> vmserver[1-4] are now RHEL5 running guests under KVM?
>
> If this is the case then setting 'virtualisation' or
> 'virtualisation_platform' entitlements on vmserver[1-4] then running
> rhn_check on vmserver[1-4] should go along way to fixing this. I've
> found it best to wait at least 10-20 seconds between setting the virt
> entitlements and running rhn_check. You will also need to re-register
> all you guests.
>
> If vmserver[1-4] are still running VMware, then I would expect each of
> the guests to consume a subscription, in line with RedHat policy.
>
> CC
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