[Openstack] VM_MISSING_PV_DRIVERS

Leandro Mendes theflockers at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 01:32:04 UTC 2015


Hi Bob.

I'll follow these docs you mentioned.

Thanks for your answer!

Best,

Leandro.
Em 20/07/2015 20:21, "Bob Ball" <bob.ball at citrix.com> escreveu:

>  Hi Leandro,
>
> This is most likely that your compute VM has been created as an HVM guest,
> rather than a PV guest.  This will typically happen if you use the "Other
> Install Media" template in XenServer rather than the template for the
> specific Linux version.
>
> The error reported is that we cannot dynamically plug a disk into a VM -
> and this is most likely to be the compute VM.  Installing the PV tools into
> the VM will get you passed this particular error however you are then
> highly likely to hit https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1318544
>
> The best fix is to reinstall the compute node as a PV guest.
> Another approach could be to convert the compute node from HVM to PV.
> Note that if you're using recent guests that use grub2 as the bootloader
> you must be using XenServer 6.5 as earlier versions didn't parse the grub2
> config correctly when submenus were involved.
> http://wiki.univention.com/index.php?title=Citrix_Xen_Server#Convert_the_UCS_system_to_paravirtualization
>
> It's also worth noting that the image you upload probably needs to be in a
> slightly different format:
> http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/10/17/upload-custom-images-to-a-xenserver-powered-openstack-cloud/
> You probably just want to extract the XVA and create a tgz as with the
> instructions on the blog page.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Leandro Mendes [theflockers at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 20 July 2015 22:40
> *To:* openstack at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* [Openstack] VM_MISSING_PV_DRIVERS
>
>    Hi guys,
>
>  Trying to register a CentOS7 VHD through glance, but when deploying the
> VM, i always get the follow error:
>
> Failure: ['VM_MISSING_PV_DRIVERS',
> 'OpaqueRef:9391569a-f5e1-1a34-1f90-fb7fb0983277']
>
>  I've created a VHD using a XVA template exported through XenCenter.
>
>  The command used to register the image was:
>
>  glance image-create --name "CentOS 7 (x86_64)" --file
> <my-centos7-image-vhd.tar.gz> --disk-format vhd --container-format bare
> --visibility public --progress
>
>  Do you guys have any clue about what's missing?
>
>  Thanks
>
>  Leandro
>
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