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Hello,

I am attempting to deploy a Nutanix CE virtual machine on KVM; however, I am encountering the following error:

 

 

Upon investigation, it appears that the installer is attempting to access certain system information from /sys/class/dmi/id within the VM, but this data is unavailable.

I have made several attempts to pass this information using virt-install, but these efforts have not been successful. Does anyone have suggestions on how to successfully install a Nutanix VM on KVM?

 

virt-install \
--connect qemu:///system \
--cpu=host \
--virt-type=kvm \
--hvm --accelerate  \
--arch x86_64 \
--features acpi=on,apic=on,pae=on \
--name nutanix1 --ram 49152 --vcpus=24 \
--disk path=/root/vm_images/nutanix1-disk1.qcow2,size=60,bus=virtio,format=qcow2 \
--disk path=/root/vm_images/nutanix1-disk2.qcow2,size=200,bus=virtio,format=qcow2 \
--disk path=/root/vm_images/nutanix1-disk3.qcow2,size=200,bus=virtio,format=qcow2 \
--cdrom /root/phoenix.x86_64-fnd_5.6.1_patch-aos_6.8.1_ga.iso \
--boot cdrom,hd \
--network bridge=pnet2,model=e1000 \
--network bridge=pnet3,model=e1000 \
--network bridge=pnet4,model=e1000 \
--noautoconsole --osinfo detect=on,name=rhel7.9 \
--sysinfo host
  <sysinfo type='smbios'>
    <bios>
      <entry name='vendor'>Dell Inc.</entry>
      <entry name='version'>2.5.2</entry>
      <entry name='date'>01/28/2015</entry>
      <entry name='release'>2.5</entry>
    </bios>
    <system>
      <entry name='manufacturer'>Dell Inc.</entry>
      <entry name='product'>PowerEdge R720</entry>
      <entry name='version'>Not Specified</entry>
      <entry name='serial'>H5DR542</entry>
      <entry name='uuid'>ca40421d-d9e9-4a52-9ca1-a51d69fb95ff</entry>
      <entry name='sku'>SKU=NotProvided;ModelName=PowerEdge R720</entry>
      <entry name='family'>Not Specified</entry>
    </system>
  </sysinfo>

 

Hi. I am very interested in this too. If I am right, Nutanix AHV is not supported as virtual machine as it needs a ton of interaction with the hardware layer, like read SN, Brand &Model, fw & fw versions, interact with the Raid controller, leds and so on.
If you manage to trick AHV with all these, I am very interested to test your solution

Hello Lulian,

I solved it by changing the disk type from qcow2 to raw and changing the bus to SATA. I'm not sure why this is related to smbios and dmi codes, but it works!

AHV is now running happily over KVM.

That‘s great. I like Nutanix but I only have productive systems to work on, although i would be happy to test dirty things. I‘ll try the Nutanix CE on KVM 🙂 very soon.

 

thank you

The tartarus errors you see that reference DMI/etc. are a bit of a red herring here, and are innocuous errors (we see the same when deploying on any virtualized platform if you don’t set the DMI data in the hypervisor.   

The actual failure here is showing the traceback which denotes it being unable to properly index/access the cluster disks, you’ve resolved this by setting the controller to SATA,  you should still be able to use qcow2 images though, you shouldn’t NEED to use raw devices.

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