[cisco-voip] CUCM7 on AMD Athlon

[Ryan Ratliff]

Looks like the fix is going into 7.1(2) which is scheduled for  
release this summer.

-Ryan

On Apr 3, 2009, at 7:16 AM, Jason Wong wrote:

Hi,

Sorry to intrude on you. I saw your message on  http://www.gossamer- 
threads.com/lists/cisco/voip/100158 and wonder if you have a update  
from the UC BU or DEV regarding the installation of CUCM 7 on amd  
athlon. If so, could you let me know which build will install  
properly ?I highlighted this during the Beta but the response was  
that AMD athlon wasn't supported and basically they didn't want to  
fix it. THANKS !!

I'm currently having Bootable_UCSInstall_UCOS_7.0.1.11000-2.sgn.iso .

Best Regards,

Jason Wong (CCSI#23132)

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Just to follow up with this I brought it up to the BU and they are
going to fix it at least in the next releases of CUCM. It may or may
not make it into a respin of 7.0 or into a bootable ES, we're still
discussing the specifics.

-Ryan

On Dec 9, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Jason Burns wrote:

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