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    • B Offline
      bc-23 @ronan-a
      last edited by

      @ronan-a I have seen there are updated packages, thanks 🙂
      After the update I'm able to start the container/VM 🙂

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      • matiasvlM Offline
        matiasvl @olivierlambert
        last edited by ronan-a

        For those that we like to try by using xe, I did this to create the correct template. I have started from a Debian 10 template, you have to replace with the correct UUID (2 VCPUs):

        xe vm-install template=Debian\ Buster\ 10 new-name-label=tempforrunx sr-uuid=7c5212f3-97b2-cdeb-b735-ad26638926e3 --minimal
        xe vm-param-set uuid=fc5c67c2-ee5a-4b90-8e0f-eb6ff9fdd29a HVM-boot-policy=""
        xe vm-param-set uuid=fc5c67c2-ee5a-4b90-8e0f-eb6ff9fdd29a PV-args=""
        xe vm-param-set VCPUs-max=2 uuid=fc5c67c2-ee5a-4b90-8e0f-eb6ff9fdd29a
        xe vm-param-set VCPUs-at-startup=2 uuid=fc5c67c2-ee5a-4b90-8e0f-eb6ff9fdd29a
        xe vm-disk-remove device=0 uuid=fc5c67c2-ee5a-4b90-8e0f-eb6ff9fdd29a
        xe template-param-set is-a-template=true uuid=fc5c67c2-ee5a-4b90-8e0f-eb6ff9fdd29a
        

        The template is listed when you issue xe template-list.

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        • r3m8R Offline
          r3m8
          last edited by

          Hi,

          Same as @bc-23, i get the error :

          message: xenopsd internal error: Could not find File, BlockDevice, or Nbd implementation: {"implementations":[["XenDisk",{"backend_type":"9pfs","extra":{},"params":"vdi:85daf561-836e-48f1-9b74-1dfef38abe9e share_dir none ///root/runx-sr/1"}]]}
          

          This is my rpm -qa | grep xenops output (my XCP-NG is up-to-date) :

          xenopsd-0.150.9-1.1.0.runx.1.xcpng8.2.x86_64
          xenopsd-xc-0.150.9-1.1.0.runx.1.xcpng8.2.x86_64
          xenopsd-cli-0.150.9-1.1.0.runx.1.xcpng8.2.x86_64
          

          Is it always the runx package that causes problems ? Thanks you all 🙂

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          • ronan-aR Offline
            ronan-a Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @r3m8
            last edited by

            @r3m8 Weird, did you run a xe-toolstack-restart?

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            • r3m8R Offline
              r3m8 @ronan-a
              last edited by

              @ronan-a We have reviewed our SR and template configuration (especially with xe vm-disk-remove device=0 setting) and it works fine (we had already done an xe-toolstack-restart to avoid restarting the hypervisor)

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              • etommE Offline
                etomm
                last edited by

                Hello all! After testing this and following the guidelines now my XCP-NG is no more able to run VMs.

                When I restart the host and try to run a VM it complains that HVM is needed. I just checked the Bios and VT-d is enabled as all the other settings that were there before testing this out.

                What can I do?

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                • ronan-aR Offline
                  ronan-a Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @etomm
                  last edited by

                  @etomm Could you share the full error message/trace please? 🙂

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                  • etommE Offline
                    etomm @ronan-a
                    last edited by

                    @ronan-a I could make it start again doing a yum update.

                    Then I think I did an error, because I tried to run the following line:

                    yum remove --enablerepo=epel -y qemu-dp xenopsd xenopsd-cli xenopsd-xc xcp-ng-xapi-storage runx
                    

                    This killed my xapi.service. Not starting anymore. If you will tell me how to find the log I can give to you the trace

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                    • ronan-aR Offline
                      ronan-a Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @etomm
                      last edited by

                      @etomm Why this yum remove command? You just deleted what allows to manage VMs. 😅 You can try to reinstall the packages using yum install.

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                      • etommE Offline
                        etomm @ronan-a
                        last edited by

                        @ronan-a I was in the bad assumptions that all the things that has been installed in this guide where new packages for RunX.

                        So when it began to give problems I went for the remove option. My bad!

                        Everything popped out from the fact that after that I could make the vms start again updating the packages as soon as I was starting the dockerd I was loosing connectivity in the host.

                        So I wanted to remove it.

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                        • J Offline
                          jmccoy555
                          last edited by

                          Been interested in this since the first blog post but never got round to trying it. Is this still a 'thing'? I'm having little luck trying to get it work and am seeing most of the errors already posted, and have tried the fixes but still no luck. I would guess I may have a template issue.......

                          Mainly wondering if its worth some effort or if its best to just run docker in a VM?

                          Thanks.

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                          • olivierlambertO Online
                            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                            last edited by

                            Hello!

                            @ronan-a will guide you if you have problems on making it work 🙂

                            There's still some work needed to be a 100% feature complete product, in the meantime, if you want to go in production, go for the VM+container inside 🙂

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                              jmccoy555 @olivierlambert
                              last edited by

                              @olivierlambert ok, if its still planned to be a feature then I'm up for playing.... testing!!

                              @ronan-a is this the best way to get the template? The rest of the instructions look pretty simple to follow so I don't think I've got them wrong..... 😄

                              xe vm-install template=Debian\ Buster\ 10 new-name-label=tempforrunx sr-uuid=7c5212f3-97b2-cdeb-b735-ad26638926e3 --minimal
                              this uuid is of the SR created by the step in the first post?

                              xe vm-param-set uuid=a2d46568-c9ab-7da2-57cb-d213ee9d8dfa HVM-boot-policy=""
                              uuid that is a result of the first step?

                              xe vm-param-set uuid=a2d46568-c9ab-7da2-57cb-d213ee9d8dfa PV-args=""
                              uuid that is a result of the first step?

                              xe vm-param-set VCPUs-max=2 uuid=14d91f2f-a103-da0e-51b3-21c8db307e5d
                              what is this uuid?

                              xe vm-param-set VCPUs-at-startup=2 uuid=14d91f2f-a103-da0e-51b3-21c8db307e5d
                              same again, where does this uuid come from?

                              xe vm-disk-remove device=0 uuid=cb5a6d67-07d5-b5ea-358a-7ee0d6e535af
                              and this one too?

                              xe template-param-set is-a-template=true uuid=a2d46568-c9ab-7da2-57cb-d213ee9d8dfa
                              uuid generated by the 1st step

                              Thanks.

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                              • ronan-aR Offline
                                ronan-a Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @jmccoy555
                                last edited by ronan-a

                                @jmccoy555 said in RunX: tech preview:

                                this uuid is of the SR created by the step in the first post?

                                Right!

                                Regarding all xe vm-param-set/xe vm-disk-remove/xe template-param-set commands, you must use the VM UUID returned by the xe vm-install command. I edited the post regarding that. 😉

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                                  jmccoy555 @ronan-a
                                  last edited by

                                  @ronan-a thanks (was obviously too late for me to think about trying that!!) but no luck 😞

                                  [18:36 bad-XCP-ng-Host-03 ~]# xe vm-install template=Debian\ Buster\ 10 new-name-label=RunX sr-uuid=cb817299-f3ee-9d4e-dd5d-9edad6e55ed0 --minimal
                                  b3b5efcf-e810-57ab-5482-4dba14dda0a6
                                  [18:37 bad-XCP-ng-Host-03 ~]# xe vm-param-set uuid=b3b5efcf-e810-57ab-5482-4dba14dda0a6 HVM-boot-policy=""
                                  [18:38 bad-XCP-ng-Host-03 ~]# xe vm-param-set uuid=b3b5efcf-e810-57ab-5482-4dba14dda0a6 PV-args=""
                                  [18:38 bad-XCP-ng-Host-03 ~]# xe vm-param-set uuid=b3b5efcf-e810-57ab-5482-4dba14dda0a6 VCPUs-max=2
                                  [18:38 bad-XCP-ng-Host-03 ~]# xe vm-param-set uuid=b3b5efcf-e810-57ab-5482-4dba14dda0a6 VCPUs-at-startup=2
                                  [18:39 bad-XCP-ng-Host-03 ~]# xe vm-disk-remove device=0 uuid=b3b5efcf-e810-57ab-5482-4dba14dda0a6
                                  [18:39 bad-XCP-ng-Host-03 ~]# xe template-param-set is-a-template=true uuid=b3b5efcf-e810-57ab-5482-4dba14dda0a6
                                  [18:41 bad-XCP-ng-Host-03 ~]# nano /etc/runx.conf
                                  [18:43 bad-XCP-ng-Host-03 ~]# podman container create --name archlinux archlinux
                                  0f72916b8cca6c7c4aa68e6ebee467c0480e29e22ebbd6ec666d8385826f88b8
                                  [18:43 bad-XCP-ng-Host-03 ~]# podman start archlinux
                                  The server failed to handle your request, due to an internal error. The given message may give details useful for debugging the problem.
                                  message: xenopsd internal error: Could not find BlockDevice, File, or Nbd implementation: {"implementations":[["XenDisk",{"backend_type":"9pfs","extra":{},"params":"vdi:1e2e7b99-2ffe-4129-a468-96b57ab685de share_dir none ///root/runx-sr/2"}]]}
                                  archlinux6
                                  [18:44 bad-XCP-ng-Host-03 ~]# rpm -qa | grep xenops
                                  xenopsd-xc-0.150.12-1.2.xcpng8.2.x86_64
                                  xenopsd-cli-0.150.12-1.2.xcpng8.2.x86_64
                                  xenopsd-0.150.12-1.2.xcpng8.2.x86_64
                                  

                                  Not sure what I'm doing wrong now, or if I need an update??

                                  When I created the SR I had to give a host-uuid. I obviously used the host that I'm installing on.

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                                    jmccoy555 @jmccoy555
                                    last edited by

                                    if this helps....

                                    yum install --enablerepo=epel -y qemu-dp xenopsd xenopsd-cli xenopsd-xc xcp-ng-xapi-storage runx
                                    Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
                                    
                                    This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use subscription-manager to register.
                                    
                                    Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
                                     * centos-ceph-nautilus: mirror.as29550.net
                                     * centos-nfs-ganesha28: mirrors.vinters.com
                                     * epel: mirror.freethought-internet.co.uk
                                    Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                                     * xcp-ng-base: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                                    Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                                     * xcp-ng-linstor: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                                    Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                                     * xcp-ng-runx: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                                    Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                                     * xcp-ng-updates: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                                    Package 2:qemu-dp-2.12.0-2.0.5.xcpng8.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
                                    Package xenopsd-0.150.12-1.2.xcpng8.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
                                    Package xenopsd-cli-0.150.12-1.2.xcpng8.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
                                    Package xenopsd-xc-0.150.12-1.2.xcpng8.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
                                    Package xcp-ng-xapi-storage-1.0.2-3.0.0.runx.1.xcpng8.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
                                    Package runx-2021.1-1.0.0.runx.1.xcpng8.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
                                    Nothing to do
                                    
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                                    • R Offline
                                      rjt
                                      last edited by

                                      Please, Please, Please make this document itself with bash variables when it comes to the various UUIDs:

                                      [XCP-ngHostX]# SRuuid=$(xe sr-list name-label="Local storage" --minimal)
                                      [XCP-ngHostX]# RunXdebTemplateName="My RunX Template based on Deb10"
                                      [XCP-ngHostX]# RUNXdebTEMPLATEuuid=$(xe vm-install template="Debian Buster 10" new-name-label="${RunXdebTemplateName}" sr-uuid=${SRuuid} --minimal)
                                      [XCP-ngHostX]# echo ${RUNXdebTEMPLATEuuid}
                                      [XCP-ngHostX]# xe vm-param-set uuid=${RUNXdebTEMPLATEuuid} HVM-boot-policy=""
                                      [XCP-ngHostX]# xe vm-param-set uuid=${RUNXdebTEMPLATEuuid} PV-args=""
                                      [XCP-ngHostX]# xe vm-param-set uuid=${RUNXdebTEMPLATEuuid} VCPUs-max=2
                                      [XCP-ngHostX]# xe vm-param-set uuid=${RUNXdebTEMPLATEuuid} VCPUs-at-startup=2
                                      [XCP-ngHostX]# xe vm-disk-remove device=0 uuid=${RUNXdebTEMPLATEuuid}
                                      [XCP-ngHostX]# xe template-param-set is-a-template=true uuid=${RUNXdebTEMPLATEuuid}
                                      [XCP-ngHostX]# xe template-list name-label="${RunXdebTemplateName}"
                                      [XCP-ngHostX]# xe template-list uuid=${RUNXdebTEMPLATEuuid}
                                      
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                                      • jchuaJ Offline
                                        jchua
                                        last edited by

                                        is this tech preview available on 8.3 alpha release?
                                        any idea how can i set RunX on 8.3 release?

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                                        • olivierlambertO Online
                                          olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                                          last edited by

                                          Question for @stormi and/or @ronan-a

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                                          • ronan-aR Offline
                                            ronan-a Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @jchua
                                            last edited by

                                            @jchua We currently don't have a test version planned for XCP-ng 8.3. Only 8.2 is supported for the moment.

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