Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#19 closed (fixed)

Creating slivers with Free BSD and Ubuntu images results in Fedora hosts being allocated

Reported by: lnevers@bbn.com Owned by: somebody
Priority: major Milestone: IG-EXP-1
Component: Experiment Version: SPIRAL4
Keywords: image support Cc:
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Description

Created the following:

  • 1 sliver named "ln0515" requesting 2 emulab-openvz nodes with FBSD82-STD images
  • 1 sliver named "ln0515a" requesting 2 emulab-openvz nodes with UBUNTU11-64-STD images

Both slivers were created without problems, logged into each of the 4 hosts and found that all 4 hosts are actually running FEDORA15-STD hosts.

Attaching the rspec for each of the sliver, and the sliverstatus for each of the sliver which shows the requested OS where allocated.

Attachments (4)

insta-2vm-bsd82.rspec (1.6 KB) - added by lnevers@bbn.com 12 years ago.
insta-2vm-ubuntu11.rspec (1.6 KB) - added by lnevers@bbn.com 12 years ago.
ln0516-sliverstatus-boss-utah-geniracks-net-protogeni-xmlrpc-am-2-0.json (38.8 KB) - added by lnevers@bbn.com 12 years ago.
ln0516a-sliverstatus-boss-utah-geniracks-net-protogeni-xmlrpc-am-2-0.json (38.8 KB) - added by lnevers@bbn.com 12 years ago.

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Change History (8)

Changed 12 years ago by lnevers@bbn.com

Attachment: insta-2vm-bsd82.rspec added

Changed 12 years ago by lnevers@bbn.com

Attachment: insta-2vm-ubuntu11.rspec added

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by lnevers@bbn.com

On 5/16/12 10:27 AM, Leigh Stoller wrote:

Both slivers were created without problems, logged into each of the 4

hosts and found that all 4 hosts are actually running FEDORA15-STD hosts.

Ah, you misunderstand how openvz nodes work. You do not get to pick the OS. We supply a single Fedora15 image with openvz kernel/runtime support, and when you ask for an openvz image, that is what you get.

Lbs

If this is not a supported path, there is no indication of it. I was able to request the sliver without error. The sliver was created without error, and the sliverstatus shows the requested OS.

Should there be some indication of non-support in any of these steps?

Also, this combination is allowed within flack, so I assumed it was supported.

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by lnevers@bbn.com

Using advertised Ubuntu or FreeBSD images is not supported for sliver_type emulab-openvz. This does not allow the execution of step 4 in the IG-EXP-2 InstaGENI Single Site test case, found at http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GENIRacksHome/AcceptanceTests/InstageniAcceptanceTestsPlan#IG-EXP-2:InstaGENISingleSiteAcceptanceTest.

Two options available:

(a) Modify step 4 to assume default image is used (Fedora15).

(b) Modify step 4 to assume a raw-pc is used to load the custom image, which duplicates later step 12 in the procedure.

Choosing option (a) for the execution of step 4.

comment:3 in reply to:  2 Changed 12 years ago by tupty@bbn.com

Replying to lnevers@bbn.com:

Using advertised Ubuntu or FreeBSD images is not supported for sliver_type emulab-openvz. This does not allow the execution of step 4 in the IG-EXP-2 InstaGENI Single Site test case, found at http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GENIRacksHome/AcceptanceTests/InstageniAcceptanceTestsPlan#IG-EXP-2:InstaGENISingleSiteAcceptanceTest.

Two options available:

(a) Modify step 4 to assume default image is used (Fedora15).

(b) Modify step 4 to assume a raw-pc is used to load the custom image, which duplicates later step 12 in the procedure.

Choosing option (a) for the execution of step 4.

I'd say this is a good path of least resistance for your testing. We do expect that for now, a single shared IG node will only support one single OS/userspace, and in this case, AFAIK, the only openvz image that is supported in the IG racks is F15. We can imagine someone creating another image that is openvz based on another OS (i.e. an Ubuntu openvz image), in which case we would think of the containers on a node running that image as being Ubuntu containers, but I'd say that we don't want to get hung up on that for now.

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by lnevers@bbn.com

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Test case IG-EXP-2 step 4 is being modified to use Fedora 15 VM. Closing ticket.

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