[c-nsp] IOS XRv in a virtual environment
Aaron
aaron1 at gvtc.com
Wed Feb 18 17:14:51 EST 2015
Thanks so much everyone.
I checked back in with my linux genius (dave) that runs the VM environment
in the data center.... he said lemme take a look... he then came back
minutes later with an eyebrow raised and asked if someone had messed with
his previous setup. A junior linux admin got in and added some cpu's and
toggled some settings a few days ago for my virtual machine.
Dave put CPU's back to 4, put the settings back but also did some additional
things to hide the underlying cpus and hardware things from my virtual
machine to make it look more generic.
That did it !
XRv and Junos Olive are now booting fine.
FYI, on this Windows 7 virtual pc, within GNS3 Jungle, I'm running ...
18 routers total
- (2) XRv 5.3
- (3) XRv 5.1
- (1) Junos Olive 12.1R1.9
- (12) 7200's
- (5) VPCS
...seeing 9.55 GB of memory used... and 4 CPU's running at about 75%
Aaron
-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Aaron
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 10:37 AM
To: 'James Bensley'
Cc: 'Harold Ritter (hritter)'; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] IOS XRv in a virtual environment
The linux guy just told me that this should be possible as he said that when
he created my vm that he enabled hardware virtualization processor
extensions since he knew I wanted the vm for reasons of running a virtual
XR/gns3 environment.
He gave me 32 GB of memory and 8 cpu's.
What's next ?
Aaron
-----Original Message-----
From: James Bensley [mailto:jwbensley at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 10:23 AM
To: Aaron
Cc: Harold Ritter (hritter); cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] IOS XRv in a virtual environment
Hi Aaron,
How much RAM has been assigned to this Virtual Machine by your Linux
engineer?
On my laptop with 4GB RAM, if I assign 2GB to an IOS-XRv VM it will run but
has periodic memory dumps. On my desktop with many GBs of RAM (can't
remember how much I have assigned to the IOS-XRv VM on their) it doesn't.
Cheers,
James.
On 18 February 2015 at 15:50, Aaron <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:
> Harold, et al, I have XRv running nicely on a laptop Windows 7. I
> imported XRv into VirtualBox which then created the virtual XR
> instance. I then see it in GNS3 Jungle and it runs nicely in GNS3
> Jungle. (nevermind that it's a memory hog)
>
>
>
> Now, question is, I tried to recreate this in a data center where my
> linux engineer created me a virtual pc machine running windows 7. I
> did all the same stuff, except now XRv crashes when trying to boot up.
>
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
> Last bootup messages prior to crash are shown below. I will provide
> more info if you need it to tell why this is occurring.
>
>
>
> Aaron
>
>
>
> This is XRv 5.3
>
>
>
> 2015-02-17 16:00:46.000
>
> Crash Reason: Kernel Crash
>
>
>
> Exception at 0xfe6ac39a signal 5 c=2 f=0
>
>
>
> Active process(s):
>
> <No kdebug_info information available>
>
>
>
> REGISTER INFO
>
> EDI ESI EBP EXX
>
> R0 fe6eb969 00000000 fe6f2120 fdfc40ec
>
> EBX EDX ECX EAX
>
> R4 00000674 fe255240 00000025 00000024
>
> EIP CS EFL ESP
>
> R8 fe6ac39a 0000001c 00001092 fe6eba29
>
> SS
>
> R12 00000000
>
>
>
> Control Registers
>
> CR0 # 0x8005003b
>
> CR2 # 0
>
> CR3 # 0x10fc0
>
> CR4 # 0x2f0
>
>
>
>
>
> Debug Registers
>
> DR0 # 0
>
> DR1 # 0
>
> DR2 # 0
>
> DR3 # 0
>
> DR6 # 0xffff0ff0
>
> DR7 # 0x400
>
>
>
>
>
> GDTR limit # 0x13f
>
> GDTR base address # 0xfed18474
>
> LDTR # 0xa0
>
> IDTR limit # 0x70f
>
> IDTR base address # 0xfed165b4
>
> TR # 0x100
>
>
>
> STACK TRACE
>
> #0 0xfdf30d70
>
> #1 0xfdf33ff8
>
>
>
>
>
> Local Syslog Messages:
>
>
>
>
>
> Dumping local syslog messages
>
>
>
> Dumping kernel printf messages
>
>
>
>
>
> Kernel Printf Messages:
>
>
>
> Crash[0,0] at nano_alloc line 1652.
>
>
>
> System reload. Waiting for pending output..........
>
>
>
> Cause code : 0x00000000
>
> Reboot code: 0x00000000, "Unknown"
>
> Dump type : 0x00000000, "No kernel dump needed"
>
> Proc name : ""
>
> (Kernel dump not required)
>
> Missing reboot reason information. Reboot reason will be derived from
> Kernel signal code !!!
>
> Writing crashinfo
>
> Crash Reason: Kernel Crash
>
>
>
> Exception at 0xfe6ac39a signal 5 c=2 f=0
>
>
>
> Active process(s):
>
> <No kdebug_info information available>
>
>
>
> REGISTER INFO
>
> EDI ESI EBP EXX
>
> R0 fe6eb969 00000000 fe6f2120 fdfc40ec
>
> EBX EDX ECX EAX
>
> R4 00000674 fe255240 00000025 00000024
>
> EIP CS EFL ESP
>
> R8 fe6ac39a 0000001c 00001092 fe6eba29
>
> SS
>
> R12 00000000
>
> CR0 # 0x8005003b
>
> CR2 # 0
>
> CR3 # 0x10fc0
>
> CR4 # 0x2f0
>
> DR0 # 0
>
> DR1 # 0
>
> DR2 # 0
>
> DR3 # 0
>
> DR6 # 0xffff0ff0
>
> DR7 # 0x400
>
>
>
>
>
> GDTR limit # 0x13f
>
> GDTR base address # 0xfed18474
>
> LDTR # 0xa0
>
> IDTR limit # 0x70f
>
> IDTR base address # 0xfed165b4
>
> TR # 0x100
>
>
>
> STACK TRACE
>
> #0 0xfdf30d70
>
> #1 0xfdf33ff8
>
> 2015-02-17 16:00:46.000
>
> Crash Reason: Kernel Crash
>
>
>
> Exception at 0xfe6ac39a signal 5 c=2 f=0
>
>
>
> Active process(s):
>
> <No kdebug_info information available>
>
>
>
> REGISTER INFO
>
> EDI ESI EBP EXX
>
> R0 fe6eb969 00000000 fe6f2120 fdfc40ec
>
> EBX EDX ECX EAX
>
> R4 00000674 fe255240 00000025 00000024
>
> EIP CS EFL ESP
>
> R8 fe6ac39a 0000001c 00001092 fe6eba29
>
> SS
>
> R12 00000000
>
>
>
> Control Registers
>
> CR0 # 0x8005003b
>
> CR2 # 0
>
> CR3 # 0x10fc0
>
> CR4 # 0x2f0
>
>
>
>
>
> Debug Registers
>
> DR0 # 0
>
> DR1 # 0
>
> DR2 # 0
>
> DR3 # 0
>
> DR6 # 0xffff0ff0
>
> DR7 # 0x400
>
>
>
>
>
> GDTR limit # 0x13f
>
> GDTR base address # 0xf
>
> Writing crashinfo done!
>
>
>
> Writing x86 kernel core file
>
>
>
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