[Spacewalk-list] Error on provisioning of VM on kvm system

[James Hogarth]

On 21 May 2010 10:45, Milan Zazrivec <mzazrivec at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Friday 21 May 2010 11:25:26 James Hogarth wrote:
>> On 21 May 2010 10:21, Milan Zazrivec <mzazrivec at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Friday 21 May 2010 11:05:08 James Hogarth wrote:
>> >> On 20 May 2010 10:32, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > On 20 May 2010 09:50, Milan Zazrivec <mzazrivec at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> >> On Wednesday 19 May 2010 23:32:06 James Hogarth wrote:
>> >> >>> KVM host is fully updated Centos 5.5
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Spacewalk instance is a fully updated spacewalk 1.0 (with cobbler
>> >> >>> 1.6.6 not 2.0.3) on centos 5.5 with epel.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> On an attempt at a remote provisioning I get:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> libvirtd (pid  4266) is running...
>> >> >>> exceptions.AttributeError
>> >> >>> Koan instance has no attribute 'virt_auto_boot'
>> >> >>>   File "/usr/share/rhn/spacewalkkoan/spacewalkkoan.py", line 191, in
>> >> >>> initiate_gu
>> >> >>>                                                          est
>> >> >>>     k.run()
>> >> >>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 329, in
>> >> >>> run self.virt()
>> >> >>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 652, in
>> >> >>> virt return self.net_install(after_download)
>> >> >>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 571, in
>> >> >>> net_install after_download(self, profile_data)
>> >> >>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 650, in
>> >> >>> after_downl
>> >> >>>                                                          oad
>> >> >>>     self.virt_net_install(profile_data)
>> >> >>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 1113,
>> >> >>> in virt_net_i
>> >> >>>                                                         nstall
>> >> >>>     virt_auto_boot      = self.calc_virt_autoboot(pd,
>> >> >>> self.virt_auto_boot)
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Any ideas? Would be nice to get that as functionality rather than
>> >> >>> booting from ISOs to use a kickstart...
>> >> >>
>> >> >> What koan version do you use on your kvm host? Does the error show
>> >> >> with both 1.6.6 and 2.0.3.1? (currently available at EPEL)
>> >> >>
>> >> >> -Milan Zázrivec
>> >> >>
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>> >> > I'm at home today not in the office... when I'm back in tomorrow
>> >> > morning I'll double check and post results.
>> >> >
>> >> > James
>> >>
>> >> /facepalm
>> >>
>> >> ...
>> >>
>> >> [admin at spacewalk ~]$ rpm -q koan
>> >> package koan is not installed
>> >>
>> >> ...
>> >>
>> >> That could explain a lot - wasn't it a dependency of spacewalk like
>> >> cobbler?
>> >
>> > cobbler is supposed to run on server (Spacewalk), koan on the client
>> > (the virt. host in your case).
>> >
>> > -MZ
>> >
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>> Ah sorry - too early and not enough coffee yet ;)
>>
>> The kvm guest of course hadn't existed by that point as it was just
>> creating it - but I guess that would just mean I'd need to make sure
>> koan was included in the package manifest for the kickstart?
>
> I don't think koan on the guest is what matters here.
>
> If I understand the problem correctly, you're getting a traceback
> when provisioning a kvm guest from Spacewalk.
>
> To be able to achieve that, you need to have several packages installed
> on your virt. *host* (not guest), one of these packages being koan.
>
> Judging by the traceback you showed in the initial email, you already
> have koan installed on your host, but since there are currently
> two versions of koan available in EPEL-5 (which is where I guess you
> installed the package from), I was wondering which koan version
> it is :-) (and whether or not both of them give you the same traceback)
>
> -MZ
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I did say I didn't have enough coffee yet.... sorry for sounding a bit
thick headed ^^

I get what you are saying now...

[admin at virtualserver01 ~]$ rpm -q koan
koan-2.0.3.1-3.el5

So I've got 2.0.3 koan on the KVM host server...

James