RunX: tech preview

r3m8

@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)

etomm

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?

ronan-a

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

etomm

@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

ronan-a

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

etomm

@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.

jmccoy555

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.

olivierlambert

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

jmccoy555

@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.

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.

jmccoy555

@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.

jmccoy555

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

rjt

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}

jchua

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

olivierlambert

Question for @stormi and/or @ronan-a

ronan-a

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

Finallf

@ronan-a would it be too much to ask for a version for 8.3?
I'm testing the alpha since publication and I would like to be able to use RunX