VMware virtual machine failes to start "kernel panic - no syncing: Oops" hp_ilo:init_hpqci +320

[wilson99]

I have a Proliant ML350 G5 server running REL 4x with hp management software installed v8.1.0? installed.

I wanted to run VMWare Converter to simply convert the physical server to a virtual machine on a ESXi4x server and the conversion seemed to go well.

However; when I attempt to start the VM it goes through the motions and eventually ends with the kernel panic error (see attachment).

I think this may have something to do with the HP_ILO module which is installed in the physical unit but VMWare does not like it.

I'm thinking that I may have to disable or remove all the HP software on the original physical host and then do a VMWareConverter conversion again but I am not very familiar with the HP software and since this is a production server I really don't want to remove anything that could cause me any problems on the next reboot or in any way take it down. I don't want any surprizes due to something I didn't consider so I don't know if disabling or removing the HPASM packages would do anything or not and if I did remove them all will my server still function normally?

My objective is just to get a working copy of the physical server as a VM just in case something happened to our main production unit but this error has stopped me in my tracks and I have never encoutered anything like this before.

Most conversions go very smoothly.

Thanks for any assistance.

[MarsQQ]

Hi Wilson

We have same problem! But we had fix this.

First, convert the machine.

Second, use OS iso to boot in linux rescue

Then, remove the rpm about hponcfg & hp-ilo and Rebuild the kernel by mkinitrd.

Once finish & reboot, you will boot in OS without error.

The panic message is about hp-ilo, so you should remove the rpm about hponcfg & hp-ilo.

Mars