similar to: libvirt: How to boot VM in esx?

Thanks a ton for the reply Matthias. I tried your suggestion but now I got one more message saying: *virsh # connect esx://172.16.73.14/?no_verify=1* *Enter username for 172.16.73.14 [root]: root* *Enter root's password for 172.16.73.14: * *error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor* *error: internal error: curl_easy_perform() returned an error: Unsupported protocol (1) : Protocol https not

Hi, I was trying to connect to ESX server using libvirt's virsh console but I am getting the following error: *virsh# connect esx://172.16.73.14* *Enter username for 172.16.73.14 [root]: root* *Enter root's password for 172.16.73.14:* *error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor* *error: internal error curl_easy_perform() returned an error: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with

Thanks a ton for the reply Matthias. I am little confused here. How to add volume on my esx server using virsh? I did SCP and copied my vmdk image to [datastore1] testNode/cluster.vmdk and also modified my xml file as you suggested. Now when I tried starting the node it gave me an error message saying: "error: Failed to start testNode error: internal error: Could not start domain:

Hi, I was trying to add volume...I got one xml snippet and I modified it according to my node configuration: < volume> <name>testNode/cluster.vmdk </name> <allocation>0 </allocation> <capacity unit='G'>2<capacity> </volume> Now when I executed "virsh vol-create datastore1 /local/new_volume.xml" one error message came saying:

Hi, Is it possible to attach a harddisk to an ESX node later after creating/defining it? If yes, can anyone tell me how to do it? Regards, Varun

Hi, Today I was trying to start a node using libvirt on ESX (esxi-5.1) hypervisor and I got the following error message: *virsh # define /local/myNode/esxdomain.xml* *Domain testNode defined from /local/myNode/esxdomain.xml* *virsh # start testNode* *error: Failed to start domain testNode* *error: internal error: Could not start domain: GenericVmConfigFault - Cannot open the disk

Can anyone please reply..... I am really very curious to know...and I am trying everything to boot my node but it is not getting booted..... :( B.R. Varun On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 3:10 PM, varun bhatnagar <varun292006@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > Im not able to boot my VM on esx hypervisor using libvirt. It says NO > Operating System found. Can anyone help? > > Regards,

Hi Ján, Thanks a lot for the suggestion. It worked and volume is added to the datastore. Now if I try to start the node it gives an error saying: Error: internal error: Could not start domain: FileNotFound - File [datastore1] testNode/cluster.vmdk was not found." But .vmdk file exist at this location. What is going wrong here can anyobe plz suggest. Below is my xml: <domain

Hi, I am having issue while doing *ssh* to a virtual node through libvirt. The nodes's ip address is 192.168.82.1. When I am giving the command it is giving the following error message: *virsh# connect vbox+ssh://192.168.82.1/session* *Password:* *error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor* *error: End of ifle while reading data: sh: nc: command not found: Input/output error.* Can anyone

2013/8/1 varun bhatnagar <varun292006@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I was trying to connect to ESX server using libvirt's virsh console but I am > getting the following error: > > virsh# connect esx://172.16.73.14 > Enter username for 172.16.73.14 [root]: root > Enter root's password for 172.16.73.14: > error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor > error:

On 26.09.2013 05:50, varun bhatnagar wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to attach a harddisk to an ESX node later after > creating/defining it? > If yes, can anyone tell me how to do it? > > Regards, > Varun > Unfortunately, this piece of functionality is not implemented yet. However, if you want to do a cold plug (that is disk will be visible at next start of the

No it was not booted with xen kernel. Actually I tried booting it with xen kernel but I am getting a message saying Error No 15 : File not found. I tried editing the grub entry and noticed that there are 3 entries: 1) kernel /boot/xen.gz vga= mode-0x345 2) module /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.13-0.27-xen....... 3) module /boot/initrd-3.0.13-0.27-xen And in /boot i listed down the files, only xen.gz is there.

Hi, I have started a virtual machine on my ESXi server. I was trying to attach a console to it but when I executed the command I got a message saying that *"Attaching a console is not supported in the current hypervisor." *Is there any way (patch or something) through which I can attach a console to my VM. The ESX version is 5.1 and I am using latest version of libvirt. Regards, Varun

Hi, I am trying to attach a usb device to my virtualbox node using libvirt. My node is already running, I stop my node and then I am trying to add this usb device. I have a separate xml file defined for usb. It looks like this: *<device> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb'> <source> <vendor id='0x4321'/> <product

Hi, I am trying to install xen and provide libvrit support to it but while installing at some point of time it tries to connect to GIT repository and creates a clone but I am behind firewall and it is getting timed out.... :( I am pasting a screenshot below. Can anyone of you please help me out with this one. // Varun

Thank you so much for the reply... :) I am trying to build this on OpenSUSE-11.4. And you said that I can get distro provided packages. I just want to ask whether installing those packages will work? Where can I get those packages? Can you please provide the link. I am scared of playing with the kernel as I am doing these things on a server that is why I am asking these things. // Varun On

Hi, Sorry for putting the images. Posting this question again. I am trying to boot my node through network with the following configuration (even with KVM it is not getting booted): < domain type='kvm'> < name>Node-2-3</name> < os> < type>hvm</type> < boot dev='network'/> < boot dev='hd'/> <

Hi, I am trying to boot my node through network with the following configuration: But I am getting an error message saying: Even my network setting is not getting reflected in the Virtualbox. Can anyone suggest me what is wrong with this configuration. I think to boot a node from network we need to define a boot server but where shall I add that, I am confused.... Any help will be

Hi, I am trying to connect to a server running esx and collect system metrics like cpu usage, network and disk iops. I am able to establish the connection successfully and obtain VM information such as ids, domain names, config xml etc. But I am unable to collect statistics. I am using the python interface and if I do , conn=libvirt.openAuth(uri, auth, 0) dom-conn.lookupByID(id) // Where id is

Hi, I am trying to start a node using libvirt on ESX hypervisor. Before starting I am performing the following steps: 1) vol-create datastore1 /local/new_volume.xml (Creating a volume in pool) 2) define /local/esxdomain.xml (Defining a node) 3) start MyNode (Starting a node) I tried to get the status of my node and it is showing *running *but I am not able to ping my node (as it is in network).