[Spacewalk-list] Error on provisioning of VM on kvm system

[Milan Zazrivec]

On Friday 21 May 2010 11:25:26 James Hogarth wrote:
> On 21 May 2010 10:21, Milan Zazrivec <mzazrivec at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 21 May 2010 11:05:08 James Hogarth wrote:
> >> On 20 May 2010 10:32, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On 20 May 2010 09:50, Milan Zazrivec <mzazrivec at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> >> On Wednesday 19 May 2010 23:32:06 James Hogarth wrote:
> >> >>> KVM host is fully updated Centos 5.5
> >> >>> 
> >> >>> Spacewalk instance is a fully updated spacewalk 1.0 (with cobbler
> >> >>> 1.6.6 not 2.0.3) on centos 5.5 with epel.
> >> >>> 
> >> >>> On an attempt at a remote provisioning I get:
> >> >>> 
> >> >>> libvirtd (pid  4266) is running...
> >> >>> exceptions.AttributeError
> >> >>> Koan instance has no attribute 'virt_auto_boot'
> >> >>>   File "/usr/share/rhn/spacewalkkoan/spacewalkkoan.py", line 191, in
> >> >>> initiate_gu
> >> >>>                                                          est
> >> >>>     k.run()
> >> >>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 329, in
> >> >>> run self.virt()
> >> >>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 652, in
> >> >>> virt return self.net_install(after_download)
> >> >>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 571, in
> >> >>> net_install after_download(self, profile_data)
> >> >>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 650, in
> >> >>> after_downl
> >> >>>                                                          oad
> >> >>>     self.virt_net_install(profile_data)
> >> >>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 1113,
> >> >>> in virt_net_i
> >> >>>                                                         nstall
> >> >>>     virt_auto_boot      = self.calc_virt_autoboot(pd,
> >> >>> self.virt_auto_boot)
> >> >>> 
> >> >>> Any ideas? Would be nice to get that as functionality rather than
> >> >>> booting from ISOs to use a kickstart...
> >> >> 
> >> >> What koan version do you use on your kvm host? Does the error show
> >> >> with both 1.6.6 and 2.0.3.1? (currently available at EPEL)
> >> >> 
> >> >> -Milan Zázrivec
> >> >> 
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> >> > I'm at home today not in the office... when I'm back in tomorrow
> >> > morning I'll double check and post results.
> >> > 
> >> > James
> >> 
> >> /facepalm
> >> 
> >> ...
> >> 
> >> [admin at spacewalk ~]$ rpm -q koan
> >> package koan is not installed
> >> 
> >> ...
> >> 
> >> That could explain a lot - wasn't it a dependency of spacewalk like
> >> cobbler?
> > 
> > cobbler is supposed to run on server (Spacewalk), koan on the client
> > (the virt. host in your case).
> > 
> > -MZ
> > 
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> Ah sorry - too early and not enough coffee yet ;)
> 
> The kvm guest of course hadn't existed by that point as it was just
> creating it - but I guess that would just mean I'd need to make sure
> koan was included in the package manifest for the kickstart?

I don't think koan on the guest is what matters here.

If I understand the problem correctly, you're getting a traceback
when provisioning a kvm guest from Spacewalk.

To be able to achieve that, you need to have several packages installed
on your virt. *host* (not guest), one of these packages being koan.

Judging by the traceback you showed in the initial email, you already
have koan installed on your host, but since there are currently
two versions of koan available in EPEL-5 (which is where I guess you
installed the package from), I was wondering which koan version
it is :-) (and whether or not both of them give you the same traceback)

-MZ