Re: [Xen-API] XCP iSCSI boot fails at "Starting the XCP networking daemon"

[Adrian Costin <adrian.costin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've managed to get XCP 1.5 to boot off iSCSI which also has this problem. What I've done is edit ifcfg-xenbr0 (or whichever bridge you boot off) and set XENMANAGED=no and assigned the IP directly into the ifcfg file (in your case I guess it can be set to DHCP).

It also has a problem when rebooting that it shuts down the network interfaces before it finishes the reboot and then it just stays there unable to continue the reboot.

Best regards,
Adrian Costin

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Damon Smith <apple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,
I am working on getting an XCP host to boot via iSCSI. I have had pretty good success getting it installed and configured thus far, needing only a few hacks to get it to a bootable state, but appear to have run into an issue.

Upon booting, the system loads fine until it reaches "Starting the XCP networking daemon". This command will eventually time-out and a few seconds later I will start getting errors about journal writing. It seems to me like the "Starting the XCP networking daemon" interrupts my connection to my iSCSI target. Presumably xcp-networkd brings the interfaces down in order to reconfigure them, but after bringing them down is unable to finish as it can no longer access the filesystem.

I've tried various options in /etc/xcp/network.conf: both "bridge" and "openvswitch" fail in the same manner.

Are there any additional configuration options I can use to resolve this? Would modifying my init files help? Can I just disable xcp-networkd completely and manage the networking configuration myself?

I feel that once this issue is resolved I will have a working XCP system booting from iSCSI, which would be very useful.

I am running the latest version of XCP and am using DHCP to configure my network. The iSCSI target is running FreeNAS.

Any thoughts?

Damon

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