Existing VM migrated from proxmox to cloudstack not working

[Noelantogerorge]

ISSUE TYPE

• Other

COMPONENT NAME

iNSTANCE

CLOUDSTACK VERSION

4.18

CONFIGURATION

Advance networking

OS / ENVIRONMENT

All on Ubuntu 22.04
Cloudstack version 4.18

SUMMARY

I am trying to bring an existing VM which is running on proxmox to cloudstack. I had downloaded the qcow2 VM file and created a templete for that on cloudstack. After deploying it as VM Instane in cloudstack it is showing No bootable device.
I checked the downloaded qcow2 file on kvm and it is running.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Try to bring a qcow2 vm img on cloudstack

EXPECTED RESULTS

VM should come up

ACTUAL RESULTS

It is showing no bootable device. I had checked with multiple files and even same file I can bring the VM on KVM

[DaanHoogland]

@Noelantogerorge did you try installing the qcow template file on kvm directly, or did you just verify that the original from which the tamplate was created did run?
Or more general Can you give more resolution to you "STEPS TO REPRODUCE" paragraph, please? It is hard to see what went wrong (not a proxmox user myself)

[kiranchavala]

@Noelantogerorge

Could you also please provide the complete management server log

[Noelantogerorge]

@DaanHoogland
I had downloaded qcow2 file from proxmox and created a template of it on cloudstack
Then created a new instance of that template. After instance is up when I check the console it is showing No bootdevice to load

So inorder to make sure my qcow2 image is not having any issue I just use virsh-install command to bring this qcow2 img vm on KVM directly. I could see that VM started and I was able to login to that guest VM

Please find me management and Agent log attached.
Logs.zip

[Noelantogerorge]

Below is my command to run the qcow2 img on kvm
virt-install
--name test
--ram 4090
--vcpus 2
--disk path=/data/dgs/test.qcow2,format=qcow2
--graphics none
--console pty,target_type=serial
--os-type linux
--os-variant ubuntu22.04
--import

[DaanHoogland]

I had downloaded qcow2 file from proxmox and created a template of it on cloudstack Then created a new instance of that template. After instance is up when I check the console it is showing No bootdevice to load

So inorder to make sure my qcow2 image is not having any issue I just use virsh-install command to bring this qcow2 img vm on KVM directly. I could see that VM started and I was able to login to that guest VM

Can you check if it is BIOS or UEFI? that is not automatically detected by cloudstack and might be a reason booting fails.

[Noelantogerorge]

its UEFI - secure boot

[Noelantogerorge]

Tried with advance boot option and bood mode to uefi - secure. but didn't start the VM as host doen't support uefi deployement.
Cannot deploy to specified host as host does n't support uefi vm deployment, returning.
I will check how to enable uefi on kvm host. If you have any documentation please share me

[kiranchavala]

@Noelantogerorge

1. Try the following steps

Edit the file /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf and add the following line

nvram = ["/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.secboot.fd:/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_VARS.fd"]

2. Restart the cloud stack agent and libvirtd or force reconnect the host

service libvirtd restart
service cloudstack-agent restart

3. Check the db entry value for host.uefi.enable

mysql> select * from host_details;
+----+---------+----------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| id | host_id | name | value |
+----+---------+----------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| 1 | 1 | Host.OS.Kernel.Version | 5.15.0-35-generic |
| 2 | 1 | com.cloud.network.Networks.RouterPrivateIpStrategy | HostLocal |
| 3 | 1 | Host.OS.Version | 22.04 |
| 4 | 1 | host.volume.encryption | true |
| 5 | 1 | secured | true |
| 6 | 1 | Host.OS | Ubuntu |
| 8 | 1 | password | Nl8+U+aEYhs7XQmf6Jz9Q6b5JmGqbO4fvV3xfDT+KgNYfd19g8us |
| 14 | 1 | username | root |
| 28 | 1 | host.uefi.enable | true |
+----+---------+----------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
9 rows in set (0.00 sec)

3. Register a uefi template

https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/8/cloud/x86_64/images/

4. Try to deploy a vm

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If you are still facing the issue, then please try with Centos 8 host/ instead of Ubuntu 22.04.2 as i think it could be a limitation

http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/installguide/hypervisor/kvm.html?highlight=uefi#uefi-legacy-secureboot

Please refer the Limitations

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Enable+UEFI+booting+for+Instance

[Noelantogerorge]

@kiranchavala
I had deployed these changes and I could able to spin up the instance using advance option as UEFI secure. Instance spinned up but still same error on console of VM I am getting no bootable device

[kiranchavala]

Hi @Noelantogerorge

Could you check if you are able to boot a alma linux image

https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/8/cloud/x86_64/images/

[Noelantogerorge]

hi @kiranchavala

I added a templete of https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/8/cloud/x86_64/images/AlmaLinux-8-GenericCloud-UEFI-latest.x86_64.qcow2 and try to start a instance with uefi secure
ends up in below screen

[Noelantogerorge]

@kiranchavala do we need to create uefi.properties file as discussed on this session #3638