[cisco-voip] CUCM 7 in VMware with AMD CPUs

[Jason Burns]

You can hack around this with a LiveCD or Fedora Rescue CD.

Run "uname -a" and "uname -p" to see what your system kernel version is as
well as the kernel type.

Based on the info returned from those two commands create a new folder with
the format of:

/lib/modules/cm_ipvms/2.6.9*.EL.athlon

Copy all of the files from:

/lib/modules/cm_ipvms/2.6.9.*.i686

to the directory you just created.

If your VMWare CallManager doesn't start on fire - things should start working.



On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Ryan Ratliff <rratliff at cisco.com> wrote:

> Looks like an oversight in the way the install was scripted where AMD cpus
> were just not taken into account rather than a malicious act.   I've got an
> email out to the install team to see if they plan on fixing it.
>
> -Ryan
>
> On Dec 9, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Terry Glass wrote:
>
> Heads up!!  The new 7 version of CUCM, Unity Connection, and Unified
> Presence will not install in VMware if you are using an AMD CPU.  We just
> built 8 training computers for our engineers to use for coming up to speed
> with versions 6 and 7 of CUCM and discovered this.
>
> Version 6 works fine, no problems, but version 7.0.1.11000-2, which is the
> released version of CUCM 7 and the version that comes with their
> Not-For-Resale offering, will fail the post install check with a complaint
> about AMD. The funny thing is that the programs install, the Linux kernels
> and drivers are installed, but when the post install script af_lap_post is
> run it states "No cdp driver module for athlonSMP system" and the install is
> failed. Unity Connection 7 and Unified Presence 7 does the same thing.
>
> It appears that for some reason either Cisco or a programmer at Cisco
> decided that they did not like AMD and purposely configured the version 7
> products that use Linux to fail. This makes no sense. If you create the
> VMware image on an Intel machine and then copy the image to a computer with
> an AMD cpu, the VMware image runs fine. If you are running the programs in
> VMware they are not supported by Cisco to start with, so why purposely make
> the programs fail if you have an AMD CPU?
>
> Cisco needs to get to the bottom of this and release new DVDs that don't
> have this nonsense. I work with a few High Schools and Technical schools,
> along with a few Training Centers that upgraded their servers and computers
> but they have AMD CPU's. While these places are not certified Cisco training
> centers, they do train a fair amount of students each year, not to mention
> that my company either has to replace the motherboards/cpu's in computers
> that are not even 4 months old or work around the fact that you can't
> practice migrations or installs.
>
>
> Terry Glass
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