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How to test Oracle Vm on qemu-kvm

798463Dec 4 2018 — edited Dec 5 2018

Hello,

I have to do a test on Oracle VM 3.4.4 (that should be based on Xen 4.4.4).

The test aims in simulating storage migration in OVM, where I have to migrate also the so called server pool file system, that requires a special procedure.

I'm just trying to proceed with the hypervisor steps (Oracle VM Server), that is the more difficult part, I suppose.

I'm testing at the moment on a Fedora 29 system, using qemu-kvm, setting host-pass-through for the vm dedicated to the Oracle VM Hypervisor.

I already tested nested virtualization hypervisors inside this system, so the host part should be ok.

I have set disks as scsi and vnic as e1000

Installation gone ok but at reboot I see cpu stuck and no prompt yet

see here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sAEO-W0-OLIGSugxIwSLRBx3WXXoK1yx/view?usp=sharing

I have not yet understood exactly the reason of complain...

Probably virtio_console module

Any one already able to create a Xen (or Oracle VM) nested environment inside qemu-kvm?

The OS of the Xen dom0 should be based on Oracle Linux 6.x, correct?

Thanks in advance for any help or pointers.

Gianluca

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798463

In the mean time I verified that 3.4.5 version of Oracle VM Server is ok under qemu/kvm, under Simon suggestion in another list:

https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/thread/33WWZRJHSKJKMNTBLD46GXDAAPLTLJCS/

So it seems there is something different between 3.4.4 and 3.4.5 that has influence in this particular env...

I would like to replicate my problem in my 3.4.4 enviroment.. I will check what to do...

Any hinsts?

Simon Coter-Oracle

Hi Gianluca,

3.4.5 introduces an updated UEK4 kernel and, maybe, this is the important difference with 3.4.4.

Oracle VM 3.4 is based on Oracle Linux 6 but it's not comparable to it (just because on OVM you've Xen booting).

Hope this helps.

Simon

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