<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><font size="3">Thanks for your answers, a few more questions in the text</font><br><br>You didn't answer about 2 nodes clusters, is that possible with PVE ?<br><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; "><span name="x"></span></div><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><b>De: </b>"Dietmar Maurer" <dietmar@proxmox.com><br><b>À: </b>"Julien Garet" <julien.garet@inria.fr>, pve-user@pve.proxmox.com<br><b>Envoyé: </b>Mardi 3 Janvier 2012 09:15:27<br><b>Objet: </b>RE: [PVE-User] Some questions about PVE 2.0<br><br>> - Can we tell the network interface for ha management ?<br><br>PVE is based on cman/corosync. See<br><br># man cman<br><br>The easiest way to use several network interfaces is to use bonding.</blockquote><font size="3">Ok, so I can change corosync's default configuration without having to fear that the next update will break everything ?</font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; ">Also about corosync, I have Dell Hardware with iDRAC, is it possible to use the iDRAC (or just ipmi) as fencing device ? I've seen that only APC PDUs are currently supported, so is that hard work to add new fencing devices ?</div><div><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><br><br>> - Is there any work on getting glusterfs for PVE ? (bricks and volumes<br>> management in the web interface)<br><br>No (glusterfs is so easy to configure anyways).<br><br>> - Is it possible to create virtual machines through the PVE API or CLI <br><br>sure<br><br># man qm<br># man pvectl<br><br>also see: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_API</blockquote><font size="3">The API allows virtual machines creation ? (I don't see it in the doc : http://pve.proxmox.com/pve2-api-doc/)</font><br><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><br></blockquote>I am having troubles with PVE 2.0 installation :</div><div>Installation process from ISO fails at grub installation, so I started in debug mode and at the end, mounted the boot partition (+ /proc and /dev) on /target then chroot to /target and update-grub + grub-install. That allowed me to boot into proxmox. Where should I report that problem ?</div><div><br></div><div>Then, I tried to access to http://myserver:8006 but no daemon listens on port 8006. Which one should ? Apache ?</div><div>Apache is not running because of a missing file in /etc/pve/local/... but there is nothing in /etc/pve, after some research, it appears that it should be the mount point for pmxcfs, how can I mount it ?</div><div><br></div><div>For info, when I try to do an aptitude upgrade (in case iso build wasn't up to date), I get the following error (doesn't sound good ;-)) :</div><div><br></div><div><div>root@infrahv2:/etc# LANG=C aptitude upgrade</div><div>The following packages will be upgraded: </div><div> vzctl </div><div>The following partially installed packages will be configured:</div><div> clvm fence-agents-pve libpve-access-control libpve-storage-perl proxmox-ve-2.6.32 pve-cluster pve-manager qemu-server redhat-cluster-pve </div><div>1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.</div><div>Need to get 0 B/234 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.</div><div>Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y</div><div>Reading changelogs... Done </div><div>(Reading database ... 27451 files and directories currently installed.)</div><div>Preparing to replace vzctl 3.0.29-3pve3 (using .../vzctl_3.0.29-3pve8_amd64.deb) ...</div><div>unable to backup existing configuration</div><div>dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/vzctl_3.0.29-3pve8_amd64.deb (--unpack):</div><div> subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1</div><div>configured to not write apport reports</div><div> Errors were encountered while processing:</div><div> /var/cache/apt/archives/vzctl_3.0.29-3pve8_amd64.deb</div><div>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)</div><div>A package failed to install. Trying to recover:</div><div>Setting up pve-cluster (1.0-17) ...</div><div>invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of restart.</div><div>pve configuration filesystem not mounted</div><div>dpkg: error processing pve-cluster (--configure):</div><div> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2</div><div>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pve-manager:</div><div> pve-manager depends on pve-cluster; however:</div><div> Package pve-cluster is not configured yet.</div><div>dpkg: error processing pve-manager (--configure):</div><div> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured</div><div>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of proxmox-ve-2.6.32:</div><div> proxmox-ve-2.6.32 depends on pve-manager; however:</div><div> Package pve-manager is not configured yet.</div><div>dpkg: error processing proxmox-ve-2.6.32 (--configure):</div><div> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured</div><div>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpve-access-control:</div><div> libpve-access-control depends on pve-cluster; however:</div><div> Package pve-cluster is not configured yet.</div><div>dpkg: error processing libpve-access-control (--configure):</div><div> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured</div><div>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of qemu-server:</div><div> qemu-server depends on pve-cluster; however:</div><div> Package pve-cluster is not configured yet.</div><div>dpkg: error processing qemu-server (--configure):</div><div> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured</div><div>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of redhat-cluster-pve:</div><div> redhat-cluster-pve depends on pve-cluster; however:</div><div> Package pve-cluster is not configured yet.</div><div>dpkg: error processing redhat-cluster-pve (--configure):</div><div> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured</div><div>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fence-agents-pve:</div><div> fence-agents-pve depends on redhat-cluster-pve; however:</div><div> Package redhat-cluster-pve is not configured yet.</div><div>dpkg: error processing fence-agents-pve (--configure):</div><div> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured</div><div>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of clvm:</div><div> clvm depends on redhat-cluster-pve; however:</div><div> Package redhat-cluster-pve is not configured yet.</div><div>dpkg: error processing clvm (--configure):</div><div> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured</div><div>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpve-storage-perl:</div><div> libpve-storage-perl depends on clvm; however:</div><div> Package clvm is not configured yet.</div><div>dpkg: error processing libpve-storage-perl (--configure):</div><div> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured</div><div>Errors were encountered while processing:</div><div> pve-cluster</div><div> pve-manager</div><div> proxmox-ve-2.6.32</div><div> libpve-access-control</div><div> qemu-server</div><div> redhat-cluster-pve</div><div> fence-agents-pve</div><div> clvm</div><div> libpve-storage-perl</div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>