Bug 520009

Summary:	Multiple fully virtualized guest O/S failures on RHEL 5.4-IA
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	William Lynch <bill.lynch>
Component:	xen	Assignee:	Xen Maintainance List <xen-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.4	CC:	bzeranski, clalance, michael.j.mcgrath, minovotn, phinchman, xen-maint
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	5.6
Hardware:	ia64
OS:	Linux
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Description William Lynch 2009-08-27 23:57:53 UTC

Description of problem:

Windows 2003-IA64 guest O/S: During installation of guest O/S using virtual machine manager, an error message displays after answering the prompts: “Error - Unable to complete install: Unable to determine kernel path”

SLES 10.2-IA64 guest O/S: During installation of guest O/S using virtual machine manager, an error message displays after answering the prompts: “Error - Unable to complete install: Unable to determine kernel path”

RHEL 4.5-IA64 guest O/S: During installation of guest O/S using virtual machine manager, an error message displays after answering the prompts: “Error - Unable to complete install: Unable to determine kernel path”

NOTE: Issue occurs on both Emulex and QLogic 4Gb HBAs. The Emulex part number is: LPe1105-HP. The QLogic part number is: QMH2462.

The VM types that would install successfully was RHEL5.4-IA64 para-virtualized and RHEL5.2-IA64 para-virtualized.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.18-162.el5 Snapshot RC2

How reproducible:
This problem is reproducible 100% of the time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Present a LUN to the DOM0 machine running RHEL5.4 RC 2.
2. Invoke the virtual machine manager to create the fully virtualized guest O/S, answer the prompts and attempt to create the VM.
3. Observe the error message(s) indicated above.

Actual results:
The creation of the VM fails indicating the error messages above.

Expected results:
The VM would be created.

Additional info: DOM0 server: BL860c
EVA-XL 8000 array - presenting the VM boot LUNs

Do not attempt the reboot the DOM0 after adding additional external storage, the DOM0 will not come back -- please refer to [Bug 519523] for details.

Comment 1 Chris Lalancette 2009-08-28 07:00:05 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> Windows 2003-IA64 guest O/S: During installation of guest O/S using virtual
> machine manager, an error message displays after answering the prompts:  “Error
> - Unable to complete install: Unable to determine kernel  path”
> 
> SLES 10.2-IA64  guest O/S: During installation of guest O/S using virtual
> machine manager, an error message displays after answering the prompts:  “Error
> - Unable to complete install: Unable to determine kernel  path”
> 
> RHEL 4.5-IA64  guest O/S: During installation of guest O/S using virtual
> machine manager, an error message displays after answering the prompts:  “Error
> - Unable to complete install: Unable to determine kernel  path”

Hm, this sounds like you don't have the firmware installed.  Do you have the xen-ia64-guest-firmware package installed on the machine?

Chris Lalancette

Comment 4 Bill Burns 2010-03-17 11:55:03 UTC

No response from reporter. Suspected user error. Closing. Please reopen if the problem can be reproduced and the info provided.

Comment 5 Paolo Bonzini 2010-04-08 15:46:46 UTC

This bug was closed during 5.5 development and it's being removed from the internal tracking bugs (which are now for 5.6).

Comment 6 Chris Lalancette 2010-07-19 13:54:46 UTC

Clearing out old flags for reporting purposes.

Chris Lalancette