Re: MirageOS on OpenStack problem

[Martin Lucina <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Hans,

On Sunday, 11.10.2020 at 19:55, Hans Ole Rafaelsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to run some of the tutorial examples on OpenStack. This is a
> "Nokia AirFrame Cloud Infrastructure" with "OpenStack Compute version
> 17.0.7-1"

Any idea what QEMU version that uses internally?

> 
> I have built a virtio target and created a qcow2 image.
> 
> When running this on OpenStack it seems to start the Solo5 execution
> environment, but the MirageOS application does not seem to start. The log
> only show:

Which example, specifically?

> SYSLINUX 6.03 20171017 Copyright (C) 1994-2014 H. Peter Anvin et al
> Loading unikernel.bin... ok
>             |      ___|
>   __|  _ \  |  _ \ __ \
> \__ \ (   | | (   |  ) |
> ____/\___/ _|\___/____/
> Solo5: Bindings version v0.6.6
> Solo5: Memory map: 1024 MB addressable:
> Solo5:   reserved @ (0x0 - 0xfffff)
> Solo5:       text @ (0x100000 - 0x47dfff)
> Solo5:     rodata @ (0x47e000 - 0x519fff)
> Solo5:       data @ (0x51a000 - 0x74afff)
> Solo5:       heap >= 0x74b000 < stack < 0x40000000
> Solo5: Clock source: KVM paravirtualized clock
> Solo5: PCI:00:03: virtio-net device, base=0xc060, irq=11
> Solo5: PCI:00:03: configured, mac=fa:16:3e:a6:51:b7, features=0x48bf81a6
> Solo5: PCI:00:04: virtio-block device, base=0xc000, irq=11
> Solo5: PCI:00:04: configured, capacity=125829120 sectors, features=0x79000e54
> 
> Not sure if it is a problem with getting the log output from the
> application or if it is not starting at all. The cloud infrastructure says
> the VM is active, but it does not show the actual resource usage of the VM,
> so it is hard to say what is going on.
> For network applications it does not respond to ping, so it seems like it
> is not running.

Try adding "--logs=*:debug" to the kernel command line.

> 
> The qcow2 image runs fine on a local (Ubuntu 18.04 host) qemu/kvm VM and I
> have no problem running other qcow2 images (Ubuntu) on the OpenStack cloud.
> 
> Is there some limitation on the images created with mirage/solo5 that
> prevents them from running on the OpenStack platform?

I suspect no one's tried on OpenStack. Also, be aware that the virtio
target is somewhat limited; all the exciting stuff is going on in the other
Solo5-based targets.

-mato

> 
> Any tips on how to investigate this problem?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans Ole Rafaelsen