Problem then of install "hpvm_guest_depot.11iv2.sd"

[Fernando Boza]

I have tree VM guest.... and then of install "hpvm_guest_depot.11iv2.sd" i hav the following error:

EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.62] [Build: Mon Oct 1 09:27:26 2007]

Loading device drivers
EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.62] [Build: Mon Oct 1 09:27:26 2007]

Please select a boot option

HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/0/0/0.0.0
EFI Shell [Built-in]
Boot option maintenance menu


Use ^ and v to change option(s). Use Enter to select an option
Loading.: HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/0/0/0.0.0
Starting: HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/0/0/0.0.0

(C) Copyright 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
All rights reserved

HP-UX Boot Loader for IPF -- Revision 2.029

Press Any Key to interrupt Autoboot
\EFI\HPUX\AUTO ==> boot vmunix
Seconds left till autoboot - 0
AUTOBOOTING...> System Memory = 17401 MB
loading section 0
........................................................... (complete)
loading section 1
............... (complete)
loading symbol table
loading System Directory (boot.sys) to MFS
....
loading MFSFILES directory (bootfs) to MFS
................
Launching /stand/vmunix
SIZE: Text:29746K + Data:7466K + BSS:5311K = Total:42524K
Console is on Serial COM1
Booting kernel...

Disabling 8259s

Memory Class Setup
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class Physmem Lockmem Swapmem
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
System : 17401 MB 17401 MB 17401 MB
Kernel : 17401 MB 17401 MB 17401 MB
User : 16288 MB 14194 MB 14250 MB
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Loaded ACPI revision 2.0 tables.
NOTICE: cachefs_link(): File system was registered at index 4.
NOTICE: nfs3_link(): File system was registered at index 7.
NOTICE: mod_fs_reg: Cannot retrieve configured loading phase from KRS for module: cifs. Setting to load at INIT

hpvmdynmem load: complete hpvmdynmem_load=0xe000000153072c40
Boot device's HP-UX HW path is: 0/0/0/0.0.0
iether1: INITIALIZING HP PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T at hardware path 0/0/2/0

System Console is on the Built-In Serial Interface
iether2: INITIALIZING HP PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T at hardware path 0/0/4/0
iether3: INITIALIZING HP PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T at hardware path 0/0/5/0
Calling function e00000000106bc80 for Shutdown State 8 type 0x2

Stored message buffer up to panic:
Found adjacent data tr. Growing size. 0x3383000 -> 0x7383000.
Pinned PDK malloc pool: base: 0xe000000100c7d000 size=118284K
Loaded ACPI revision 2.0 tables.

MFS is defined: base= 0xe000000100c7d000 size= 1568 KB


Unpinned PDK malloc pool: base: 0xe000000108000000 size=327680K
NOTICE: cachefs_link(): File system was registered at index 4.
NOTICE: nfs3_link(): File system was registered at index 7.
NOTICE: mod_fs_reg: Cannot retrieve configured loading phase from KRS for module: cifs. Setting to load at INIT

hpvmdynmem load: complete hpvmdynmem_load=0xe000000153072c40
0 cec_gen
0/0 gh2p
Initializing the Ultra320 SCSI Controller at 0/0/0/0. Controller firmware version is 00.00.00.00
0/0/0/0 mpt
0/0/2/0 iether
0/0/3/0 legacyio
0/0/3/0/1 asio0
0/0/4/0 iether
0/0/5/0 iether
0/0/6/0 iether
0/1 gh2p
0/2 gh2p
0/3 gh2p
0/4 gh2p
0/5 gh2p
0/6 gh2p
0/7 gh2p
0/7/7/0 hpvmdynmem
120 processor
121 processor
250 pdh
250/0 ipmi
250/1 acpi_node
0/0/0/0.0 tgt
0/0/0/0.0.0 sdisk
0/0/0/0.15 tgt
0/0/0/0.15.0 sctl
Boot device's HP-UX HW path is: 0/0/0/0.0.0
iether1: INITIALIZING HP PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T at hardware path 0/0/2/0

System Console is on the Built-In Serial Interface
iether2: INITIALIZING HP PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T at hardware path 0/0/4/0
iether3: INITIALIZING HP PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T at hardware path 0/0/5/0
iether4: INITIALIZING HP PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T at hardware path 0/0/6/0

System Panic:

panic: Failed to allocate memory for buffer cache
Stack Trace:
IP Function Name
0xe000000000ebf8c0 binit+0x4c0
0xe00000000164d070 DoCalllist+0x3a0
End of Stack Trace

linkstamp: Wed Sep 17 15:08:51 SAT 2008
_release_version: @(#) $Revision: vmunix: B11.23_LR FLAVOR=perf Fri Aug 29 22:35:38 PDT 2003 $

*** A system crash has occurred. (See the above messages for details.)
*** The system is now preparing to dump physical memory to disk, for use
*** in debugging the crash.

ERROR: Your system crashed before I/O and dump configuration was complete.
This system does not support a crash dump under these circumstances.
Contact your HP support representative for assistance.

**** Dumping Guest Image ****

**** Done with dump (23124Kbytes) ****


*** VM restarting ***
Scsi(Pun0,Lun0) HP Virtual Disk 0.04 ( 80 MBytes/sec)
EFI version 1.10 [14.62] Build flags: EFI64 Running on Intel(R) Itanium Processor EFI_DEBUG
EFI IA-64 SDV/FDK (BIOS CallBacks) [Mon Oct 1 09:27:26 2007] - HP
Cache Enabled. This image MainEntry is at address 0000000000102000
HP AVIO Stor Driver v1.0
HP AVIO LAN UNDI Driver v1.0
FPSWA.EFI preload successful.
FPSWA.EFI start successful.
Scsi(Pun0,Lun0) HP Virtual Disk 0.04 ( 80 MBytes/sec)
EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.62] [Build: Mon Oct 1 09:27:26 2007]

Loading device drivers
EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.62] [Build: Mon Oct 1 09:27:26 2007]

Please select a boot option

HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/0/0/0.0.0
EFI Shell [Built-in]
Boot option maintenance menu


Use ^ and v to change option(s). Use Enter to select an option
Loading.: HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/0/0/0.0.0
Starting: HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/0/0/0.0.0

(C) Copyright 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
All rights reserved

HP-UX Boot Loader for IPF -- Revision 2.029

Press Any Key to interrupt Autoboot
\EFI\HPUX\AUTO ==> boot vmunix
Seconds left till autoboot - 0
AUTOBOOTING...> System Memory = 17401 MB
loading section 0
........................................................... (complete)
loading section 1
............... (complete)
loading symbol table
loading System Directory (boot.sys) to MFS
....
loading MFSFILES directory (bootfs) to MFS
................
Launching /stand/vmunix
SIZE: Text:29746K + Data:7466K + BSS:5311K = Total:42524K
Console is on Serial COM1
Booting kernel...

Disabling 8259s

Memory Class Setup
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class Physmem Lockmem Swapmem
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
System : 17401 MB 17401 MB 17401 MB
Kernel : 17401 MB 17401 MB 17401 MB
User : 16288 MB 14194 MB 14250 MB
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Loaded ACPI revision 2.0 tables.
NOTICE: cachefs_link(): File system was registered at index 4.
NOTICE: nfs3_link(): File system was registered at index 7.
NOTICE: mod_fs_reg: Cannot retrieve configured loading phase from KRS for module: cifs. Setting to load at INIT

hpvmdynmem load: complete hpvmdynmem_load=0xe000000153072c40
Boot device's HP-UX HW path is: 0/0/0/0.0.0
iether1: INITIALIZING HP PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T at hardware path 0/0/2/0

System Console is on the Built-In Serial Interface
iether2: INITIALIZING HP PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T at hardware path 0/0/4/0
iether3: INITIALIZING HP PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T at hardware path 0/0/5/0
iether4: INITIALIZING HP PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T at hardware path 0/0/6/0

[Torsten.]

Can you post the config for this guest?

[Fernando Boza]

how I get that?

[Tim Nelson]

hpvmstatus -P

[Fernando Boza]

# hpvmstatus -P vmrehosting
[Virtual Machine Details]
Virtual Machine Name VM # OS Type State
==================== ===== ======= ========
vmrehosting 2 HPUX On (OS)

[Authorized Administrators]
Oper Groups:
Admin Groups:
Oper Users:
Admin Users:

[Virtual CPU Details]
#vCPUs Entitlement Maximum
====== =========== =======
2 100.0% 100.0%

[Memory Details]
Total Reserved
Memory Memory
======= ========
17 GB 64 MB

[Dynamic Memory Information]
Minimum Target Maximum
Memory Memory Memory
=========== =========== ===========
512 MB 2105 MB 17408 MB

[Storage Interface Details]
Guest Physical
Device Adaptor Bus Dev Ftn Tgt Lun Storage Device
======= ========== === === === === === ========= =========================
disk scsi 0 0 0 0 0 disk /dev/rdsk/c5t0d1

[Network Interface Details]
Interface Adaptor Name/Num PortNum Bus Dev Ftn Mac Address
========= ========== ========== ======= === === === =================
vswitch lan sw_b 2 0 2 0 0a-4a-cb-87-5d-24
vswitch lan sw_a 2 0 4 0 22-c7-09-4d-51-10
vswitch lan swhb_b 2 0 5 0 82-28-af-ee-9e-9c
vswitch lan swhb_a 2 0 6 0 f6-bc-6b-10-7b-de

[Misc Interface Details]
Guest Physical
Device Adaptor Bus Dev Ftn Tgt Lun Storage Device
======= ========== === === === === === ========= =========================
serial com1 tty console
#

[Torsten.]

Please do

# hpvmstatus -V -P vmrehosting

and attach, if possible.

[Tim Nelson]

1) I am assuming IVM 3.5 as you have dynamic mem config. Assumin the IVM guest software is also 3.5.

2) why not try 1GB for the min on dynamic ram config, 512 may just not be enough.

Has this guest ever been up and running ( before the guest depot you just loaded ? )

Note: I see you are dedicating 2 physical processors to this guest. I guess it is ok, but my comment is, "Why have IVM then, purpose of VM is to share ?" (I am just curious as to why ).

The above would also effect how many VMGuest you can have, without knowing your VMHost config and how many other guests are running I cannot tell if this is causing an issue. e.g. 8 CPU host, 5 guests all with 2vCPU with 100% entitlement ( I would think in this case the guest would fail to start at all vs a panic)

[Fernando Boza]

# hpvmstatus -V -P vmrehosting
[Virtual Machine Details]
Virtual Machine Name : vmrehosting
Virtual Machine UUID : 56977bba-8036-11dd-8f05-001f290c0987
Virtual Machine ID : 2
Virtual Machine Label : Re-Hosting Contingencia-Desarrollo
VM's Model Name : server Integrity Virtual Machine
VM's Serial Number : VM00837001
VM's Config Version : 3.50.0
VM's Config Label : HPVM A.03.50 clearcase opt Mon Oct 08 2007 13h36m03s PDT
Operating System : HPUX
OS Version Number :
State : On (OS)
Start type : Manual
Console type : vt100-plus
Guest's hostname :
Guest's IP address : 172.20.24.113
EFI location : /opt/hpvm/guest-images/common/efi
Pattern File location : /opt/hpvm/guest-images/common/patterns.vmmpat
Guest revision : 1
Running on serverid : 0
Running on pid : 18011
Application controllers : NONE
Distributed : 0

[Authorized Administrators]
Oper Groups:
Admin Groups:
Oper Users:
Admin Users:

[Virtual CPU Details]
Number Virtual CPUs : 2
Minimum Virtual CPUs : 1
Maximum Virtual CPUs : 4
Percent Entitlement : 100.0%
Maximum Entitlement : 100.0%

[Memory Details]
Total memory : 17 GB
Minimum memory limit : 512 MB
Maximum memory limit : 64 GB
Reserved memory : 64 MB
Minimum reserved limit : 32 MB
Maximum reserved limit : 64 GB
VHPT Size : 1 MB

[Dynamic Memory Information]
Type : driver
Minimum memory : 512 MB
Target memory : 2105 MB
Maximum memory : 17408 MB
Current memory : 2361 MB
Comfortable minimum : 5433 MB
Boot memory : 17401 MB
Free memory : 22 MB
Available memory : 0 MB
Memory pressure : 100
Memory chunksize : 65536 KB
Driver Mode(s) : STARTED ENABLED

[Storage Interface Details]
Guest Device type : disk
Guest Adaptor type : scsi
Ioscan format : 0/0/0/0.0.0
Bus : 0
Device : 0
Function : 0
Target : 0
Lun : 0
Physical Storage type : disk
Physical Device : /dev/rdsk/c5t0d1


[Network Interface Details]
Physical Storage type : vswitch
Guest Adaptor type : lan
Backing : sw_b
Vswitch Port : 2
Ioscan format : 0/0/2/0
Bus : 0
Device : 2
Function : 0
Mac Address : 0a-4a-cb-87-5d-24

Physical Storage type : vswitch
Guest Adaptor type : lan
Backing : sw_a
Vswitch Port : 2
Ioscan format : 0/0/4/0
Bus : 0
Device : 4
Function : 0
Mac Address : 22-c7-09-4d-51-10

Physical Storage type : vswitch
Guest Adaptor type : lan
Backing : swhb_b
Vswitch Port : 2
Ioscan format : 0/0/5/0
Bus : 0
Device : 5
Function : 0
Mac Address : 82-28-af-ee-9e-9c

Physical Storage type : vswitch
Guest Adaptor type : lan
Backing : swhb_a
Vswitch Port : 2
Ioscan format : 0/0/6/0
Bus : 0
Device : 6
Function : 0
Mac Address : f6-bc-6b-10-7b-de


[Misc Interface Details]
Guest Device type : serial
Guest Adaptor type : com1
Physical Storage type : tty
Physical Device : console

#

[Fernando Boza]

Yes, I'm using IVM 3.5 on Host and Guest.
I try with 1GB, but the problem is the same.
The guest has running before the load depot.
The host server has 12 core processors...


# hpvmstatus
[Virtual Machines]
Virtual Machine Name VM # OS Type State #VCPUs #Devs #Nets Memory Runsysid
==================== ===== ======= ========= ====== ===== ===== ======= ========
vmrehosting 2 HPUX On (OS) 2 1 4 17 GB 0
vmoracle 4 HPUX On (ATTN) 2 17 4 29 GB 0
vmolap 6 WINDOWS Off 4 1 1 13 GB 0
#

[Torsten.]

Do you have all the patches?

See also this thread

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1270354

[Tim Nelson]

That was my only idea, sorry.

I reviewed my VGuest boot logs and have listed it below.

One last thought, Up to date on patches ?? Next suggestion would be to place a call to HP.



loading MFSFILES directory (bootfs) to MFS
.................
Launching /stand/vmunixPF -- Revision 2.029

Loaded ACPI revision 2.0 tables.
NOTICE: cachefs_link(): File system was registered at index 4.
NOTICE: nfs3_link(): File system was registered at index 7.
hpvmdynmem load: complete hpvmdynmem_load=0xe000000146343d60
NOTICE: mod_fs_reg: Cannot retrieve configured loading phase from KRS for module: cifs. Setting to load at INIT

Boot device's HP-UX HW path is: 0/0/0/0.1.0
iether0: INITIALIZING HP PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T at hardware path 0/0/1/0-
Class Physmem Lockmem Swapmem
System Console is on the Built-In Serial Interface-------------------
Logical volume 64, 0x3 configured as ROOT 2039 MB
Logical volume 64, 0x2 configured as SWAP 2039 MB
Logical volume 64, 0x2 configured as DUMP 1482 MB
Standard input
entry 0 - major is 64, minor is 0x2; start = 0, size = 8388608
Starting the STREAMS daemons-phase 1
The device file /dev/rroot does not exist or is not correct.
Automatic checks of the root file system not performed.
Create STCP device files
$Revision: vmunix: B11.23_LR FLAVOR=perf Fri Aug 29 22:35:38 PDT 2003 $
Memory Information:
physical page size = 4096 bytes, logical page size = 4096 bytes
Physical: 2088448 Kbytes, lockable: 1486716 Kbytes, available: 1711596 Kbytes

insf: Installing special files for sdisk instance 0 address 0/0/0/0.0.0
insf: Installing special files for sdisk instance 1 address 0/0/0/0.1.0
Volume group "/dev/vg00" has been successfully changed.
Resynchronized volume group /dev/vg00

[Don Morris_1 · Accepted solution]

binit() is doing a non-blocking kernel allocation for 64Kb at a time up to dbc_min_pct * your memory [Minimum buffer cache buffers].. poking around the path in question and looking at patches, I don't think it likely that there's a problem in the code per se -- nor do I seriously expect that the kernel just ate 17Gb before this point.

Which makes me think that the dynamic memory part of HPVM is somehow coming into play here. (I don't know all the details of this feature, but that strikes me as the new factor).

Since dbc_min_pct defaults to 5% (if you know that you set it, fine... apply that factor instead) -- what you need to satisfy binit() is around 870.05Mb (17401Mb * .05). So -- can you try increasing the minimum memory of the IVM Guest in question to 1Gb over what you've already set? (Not 1Gb total but 1.5Gb to 2Gb?) If this is an odd interaction with the Guest hitting the minimum while still doing non-blocking boot up allocations, that may work around things by ensuring that enough memory is there to get the whole system up and running. Then you can pursue with your support contacts why the Guest memory didn't get adjusted in this case. If this doesn't work we'll have to look further, obviously.

[Fernando Boza]

I installed AVIO 0809 on VMHost and the path:
PHKL_36904

I increased the minimun memory to 2GB ... but the probles is the same

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

I would stop increasing memory and do a more extensive patch check, host and guest.

A recent QPK and all the patches that relate to VM.

SEP

[Fernando Boza]

but guest don't boot
I can't patch this

[Don Morris_1]

Go to a support call then -- everything I can think of next would involve using the console debugger, and that's way too involved to try to walk you through. Support will be able to coordinate resources and/or do additional debugging for you.

[Fernando Boza]

FYI
the response from call center:
I looked through the hpvmcollect info and the various things they have tried. In particular, they are using dynamic memory. To summarize, I believe the problem is that ram_dyn_target_start is set too small. For the guest for which I have the info, this is set to 2G, but the total size is 17G. In the configuration guide (section 9.6.3.4) it cautions against setting this value too low because it could lead to hangs or crashes while booting. The guideline is not to reduce more than 75% from the allocated size. Using this guideline, the ram_dyn_target_start should probably be 4.25G at a minimum, a little more would be better.
I'd recommend changing this value to see if it resolves the problem.

From the log that I can see (I don't have the config file), the other guest suffers from the same issue - the start looks to be 2G, but that guest (vmoracle) has an allocated size of 32G, so it is even more out of line (start value should be at least 8G)