Hi,

We’re setting up 4 new compute nodes in our openstack Pike setup and 2 of them are behaving strangely, despite having the same hardware as the others. When I try to create a new instance on these compute nodes, the instance fail to spawn and the following error message appears in the log :

2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager Traceback (most recent call last): 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 2203, in _build_resources 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager yield resources 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 2018, in _build_and_run_instance 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager block_device_info=block_device_info) 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 2898, in spawn 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager block_device_info=block_device_info) 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 5220, in _get_guest_xml 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager context) 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 5035, in _get_guest_config 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager flavor, virt_type, self._host) 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/vif.py", line 558, in get_config 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager vnic_type) 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/vif.py", line 521, in _get_config_os_vif 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager inst_type, virt_type, vnic_type) 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/vif.py", line 134, in get_base_config 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager virt=virt_type) 2019-05-24 15:13:35.559 16944 ERROR nova.compute.manager UnsupportedHardware: Requested hardware 'virtio1.0-net' is not supported by the 'kvm' virt driver

After doing some research on google, I understand that this happens when the network interface model is defined as virtio1.0-net in the xml that’s fed to libvirt and libvirt does not consider that a valid name for a network interface model. That said, why is Nova passing that model name to libvirt? I understand that it comes from libosinfo, but how is Nova getting that (wrong) information? If I look on other compute nodes, the model for the network interface is simply virtio.

Best regards,

Jean-Philippe Méthot Openstack system administrator Administrateur système Openstack PlanetHoster inc.