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Explicitly configuring exrtra_specs "hw:cpu_policy=shared" in a flavor does
not work around this issue.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Steve Gordon <sgordon at redhat.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Matt Kassawara" <mkassawara at gmail.com>
> > To: "Steve Gordon" <sgordon at redhat.com>
> >
> > Yes, QEMU... everything resides on cloud servers that don't support
> nested
> > acceleration... and I see exactly that content in the guest XML file. I'm
> > using a CirrOS 0.3.3 image and m1.tiny flavor... neither of which should
> > ask for pinning by default, nor can I find it explicitly configured in my
> > environment. Also, this spec applies to Juno, so I would have expected
> this
> > issue to appear in those packages rather than the Kilo packages. I guess
> > I'll try messing with the flavor next and see what happens.
>
> It was approved in Juno, but was only ultimately implemented in Kilo:
>
>
> http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/kilo/implemented/virt-driver-cpu-pinning.html
>
> -Steve
>
> > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Steve Gordon <sgordon at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Matt,
> > >
> > > Are you running this nested in a VM by chance (that is using qemu w/o
> kvm
> > > acceleration)? I ask because in this case I would expect this line in
> the
> > > guest XML is causing it to fail:
> > >
> > >      <vcpu placement='static' cpuset='0-1'>1</vcpu>
> > >
> > > ...as qemu does not support pinning when kvm isn't available. What's
> not
> > > clear to me is why the Ubuntu version would be adding this line since
> it
> > > sounds like master/kilo-3 is behaving correctly per the spec (only
> adding
> > > these lines where the user explicitly requests direct pinning of CPUs
> on
> > > the image or flavor [1]).
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > [1]
> > >
> http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/juno/approved/virt-driver-cpu-pinning.html
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Matt Kassawara" <mkassawara at gmail.com>
> > > > To: openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org
> > > > Sent: Monday, April 6, 2015 2:52:11 PM
> > > > Subject: [OpenStack-docs] [install-guide] Ubuntu updates for Kilo
> > > blocked on  bug #1439280
> > > >
> > > > I cannot launch an instance on Ubuntu using the kilo-3 packages due
> to
> > > the
> > > > following bug:
> > > >
> > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nova/+bug/1439280
> > > >
> > > > I do not hit this issue using nova from source (kilo-3 or master)
> rather
> > > > than packages. I e-mailed Chuck Short and haven't received a
> response. I
> > > > also have some nova folks researching the problem, but no conclusions
> > > yet.
> > > >
> > > > Matt
> > > >
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> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Steve Gordon, RHCE
> > > Sr. Technical Product Manager,
> > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
> > >
> >
>
> --
> Steve Gordon, RHCE
> Sr. Technical Product Manager,
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
>
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