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Hi David,
The VM.create is setting this:
<name>platform</name>
<value>
<struct>
<member>
<name>viridian</name>
<value>true</value>
</member>
...
</struct>
</value>
Am I right in thinking that getting cloudstack to set viridian to
false could fix the VM_HVM_REQUIRED error?
Many thanks,
Chris
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:49 AM, chris snow <chsnow123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> xe vm-param-list output:
>
> name-label ( RW): i-2-19-VM
> name-description ( RW): Template which allows VM
> installation from install media
> user-version ( RW): 1
> is-a-template ( RW): false
> is-a-snapshot ( RO): false
> snapshot-of ( RO): <not in database>
> snapshots ( RO):
> snapshot-time ( RO): 19700101T00:00:00Z
> snapshot-info ( RO):
> parent ( RO): <not in database>
> children ( RO):
> is-control-domain ( RO): false
> power-state ( RO): halted
> memory-actual ( RO): 0
> memory-target ( RO): 0
> memory-overhead ( RO): 4194304
> memory-static-max ( RW): 104857600
> memory-dynamic-max ( RW): 104857600
> memory-dynamic-min ( RW): 104857600
> memory-static-min ( RW): 104857600
> suspend-VDI-uuid ( RW): <not in database>
> suspend-SR-uuid ( RW): <not in database>
> VCPUs-params (MRW): weight: 9; cap: 0
> VCPUs-max ( RW): 1
> VCPUs-at-startup ( RW): 1
> actions-after-shutdown ( RW): Destroy
> actions-after-reboot ( RW): Restart
> actions-after-crash ( RW): Destroy
> console-uuids (SRO):
> platform (MRW): viridian: true; acpi: true;
> apic: true; pae: true; nx: false
> allowed-operations (SRO): changing_dynamic_range;
> changing_shadow_memory; changing_static_range; make_into_template;
> destroy; export; start_on; start; clone; copy; snapshot
> current-operations (SRO):
> blocked-operations (MRW):
> allowed-VBD-devices (SRO): 1; 2; 3
> allowed-VIF-devices (SRO): 0; 1; 2; 3
> possible-hosts ( RO):
> HVM-boot-policy ( RW): BIOS order
> HVM-boot-params (MRW): order: dc
> HVM-shadow-multiplier ( RW): 1.000
> PV-kernel ( RW):
> PV-ramdisk ( RW):
> PV-args ( RW):
> PV-legacy-args ( RW):
> PV-bootloader ( RW):
> PV-bootloader-args ( RW):
> last-boot-CPU-flags ( RO):
> last-boot-record ( RO): ''
> resident-on ( RO): <not in database>
> affinity ( RW): c47d712e-8aa8-fcd6-113e-8546532e5fcc
> other-config (MRW): mac_seed:
> b2088266-d6fd-dfd2-4b5e-84c037d085d6; install-methods: cdrom
> dom-id ( RO): -1
> recommendations ( RO): <restrictions><restriction
> field="memory-static-max" max="137438953472" /><restriction
> field="vcpus-max" max="16" /><restriction property="number-of-vbds"
> max="7" /><restriction property="number-of-vifs" max="7"
> /></restrictions>
> xenstore-data (MRW):
> ha-always-run ( RW) [DEPRECATED]: false
> ha-restart-priority ( RW):
> blobs ( RO):
> start-time ( RO): 19700101T00:00:00Z
> install-time ( RO): 19700101T00:00:00Z
> VCPUs-number ( RO): 0
> VCPUs-utilisation (MRO):
> os-version (MRO): <not in database>
> PV-drivers-version (MRO): <not in database>
> PV-drivers-up-to-date ( RO): <not in database>
> memory (MRO): <not in database>
> disks (MRO): <not in database>
> networks (MRO): <not in database>
> other (MRO): <not in database>
> live ( RO): <not in database>
> guest-metrics-last-updated ( RO): <not in database>
> cooperative ( RO): true
> protection-policy ( RW): <not in database>
> is-snapshot-from-vmpp ( RO): false
> tags (SRW):
> appliance ( RW): <not in database>
> start-delay ( RW): 0
> shutdown-delay ( RW): 0
> order ( RW): 0
> version ( RO): 0
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:31 AM, David Bomba <turbo124@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> are you able to go to the cli and retrieve the param-list for this VM? i
>> think this may be due to VIRIDIAN flag being set to true.
>>
>> xe vm-param-list uuid=<uuid of vm>
>>
>>
>> On 4 April 2014 10:21, chris snow <chsnow123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have debian wheezy running xen host inside a virtualbox guest, so
>>> the xen host doesn't have HVM.
>>>
>>> I am using a third party application (cloudstack) communicating with
>>> xen using xapi. I'm trying to create a VM using Ubuntu 12.04
>>> installation ISO [1], but have set the OS type to 'Other (32 bit) so
>>> that xen would not use HVM, but I receive the error VM_HVM_REQUIRED.
>>>
>>> I have captured the VM.create request here:
>>> https://gist.github.com/snowch/9957480 and also the VM.start_on
>>> response here: https://gist.github.com/snowch/9957480
>>>
>>> I had originally posted this question to the cloudstack mailing list,
>>> but I now think the question is more relevant to this list because it
>>> is actually a question about the xen api.
>>>
>>> Question 1:
>>>
>>> Is my understanding correct that I should be able to create a VM on a
>>> non HVM Xen host using the Ubuntu install ISO?
>>>
>>> Question 2:
>>>
>>> If the answer to Q1 is 'yes', is there anything that stands out in the
>>> VM.start request that is telling Xen that the vm must have HVM support
>>> which is then telling xen to fail the request? It seems that
>>> somewhere in the xapi call stack for VM.start_on, the method
>>> VM.get_HVM_boot_policy is getting called and returning that hvm is
>>> required.
>>>
>>> Many thanks!
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> ---
>>> [1] http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04.4-server-i386.iso
>>> [2]
>>> https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/blob/master/ocaml/xapi/xapi_vm_helpers.ml#L488
>>>
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>>
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