[Spacewalk-list] Indentifying host type

Tue Jan 6 13:16:23 UTC 2009

Hi
After asking around a bit on the libvirt mailing list the conclusion is
that xen specific functionality in spacewalk will not work if you are
using "XenServer release 4.1.0-7843p (xenenterprise)". libvirt requires
xend to gather xen information and as of yet there is'nt a driver in
libvirt to support XenServer from citrix. Spacewalk uses libvirt to
gather xen information.

Regards

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gerhardus.Geldenhuis at gta-travel.com
> Sent: 06 January 2009 10:55
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] Indentifying host type
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-
> > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Brian Kosick
> > Sent: 05 January 2009 19:45
> > To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Indentifying host type
> >
> > That's caused by haldaemon not running...
> >
> > service haldeamon start
> >
> > HAL depends on messagebus so if it fails to start, do this...
> >
> > service messagebus restart
> > service haldaemon restart
> >
> > You should be OK...   Other than that, I'm relatively new to
> spacewalk
> > and rhnreg_ks as well and I can't answer the rest of your
question...
> 
> Indeed! Many thanks.
> 
> 
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 07:17 -0700, Gerhardus.Geldenhuis at gta-
> travel.com
> > wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > Can anyone comment on how the registration process using rhnreg_ks
> > > determines the system type. Eg how does it know whether the
machine
> > you
> > > are registering is a Virtual Guest, Virtual Host or a non-Virtual
> > > system.
> > >
> > > We have some Citrix xen servers:
> > > cat /etc/redhat-release
> > > XenServer release 4.1.0-7843p (xenenterprise)
> > >
> > > that is not picked up as Virtual Host servers when we register
them
> > in
> > > spacewalk and instead are just registered as "Non-Virtual System"
> > >
> > > I do get the following error when registering:
> > > Error reading hardware information: dbus_bindings.DBusException
> > > Error reading DMI information: dbus_bindings.DBusException
> > >
> > > But I get that for other machines too when registering, and this
> > error
> > > has not prevented spacewalk from correctly indentifying whether
the
> > > machine is a xen guest or a physical server and thus I believe it
> is
> > not
> > > related.
> > >
> > > Regards
> 
> I remembered that I went through some effort to get xen guests
> registered and listed under the correct xen host(created using virsh)
> while using Satellite and redhat.
> 
> Do that I had to do:
> yum install rhn-kickstart-virtualization
> 
> I did that but I get the following error message:
> 
> rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=http://LONGRHN01A.gta.travel.lcl/XMLRPC
> --activationkey=1-basic --username=admin --force
> libvir: Xen Daemon error : internal error failed to connect to xend
> libvir: Xen Daemon error : internal error failed to connect to xend
> An error has occurred:
> exceptions.AttributeError
> See /var/log/up2date for more information
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 267, in ?
>     cli.run()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhncli.py", line 65, in run
>     sys.exit(self.main() or 0)
>   File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 176, in main
>     rhnreg.sendVirtInfo(systemId)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnreg.py", line 648, in
> sendVirtInfo
>     support.refresh()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/support.py", line 71, in refresh
>     domain_list = domains.values()
> exceptions.AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'values'
> 
> 
> I am assuming that the appropriate libraries that this python code is
> expecting is not in place. I someone able to make some suggestions as
> to
> what libraries are required for the python code to pick up all the
> necessary info.
> 
> Regards
> 
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