New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32) [UPDATE]

[baserz]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

LSI 9260-81
http://www.lsi.com/channel/products/megaraid/sassata/9260-8i/index.html#Product Guide

As far as ive read this adapter has kernel support from 2.6.27 and up.

Ninjix wrote in an earlier discussion that this card was up and running well with proxmox(using 4 drives in a raid10 if i remember correctly) but it took some quote "clonezilla trickery" to get it running. Wich i conclude must mean he installed it outside the adapter, upgraded the kernel then pushed it onto the raid with Clonezilla? (wich was my plan to do if no other solution was found).

 

[baserz]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

Product name and link wrong, and isnt allowed to edit it seems so here is the correct info:
LSI 9260-8i

 

[baserz]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

Worth mentioning is that there are a lot of intel, lsi and 3ware cards built on the same or similar circuits = alot of cards not supported in linux until later kernels(2.6.27 -> later, as far as i have seen).

 

[ettorer]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

Hi,
I'm testing kernel 2.6.32 KSM feature.
I have two running XP VMs and it seems like KSM is not active.

cat /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_sharing returns zero
cat /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_shared also returns zero

The article http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/using-ksm-kernel-samepage-merging-kvm
talks about "kvm-88" and a specific MADV_MERGEABLE compiler definition needed to enable KSM.
May be Proxmox 1.5 is not using kvm-88? or MADV_MERGEABLE is not defined in the Makefile?
Thanks and Regards
Ettore

 

[dietmar]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

May be Proxmox 1.5 is not using kvm-88? or MADV_MERGEABLE is not defined in the Makefile?

Again, Proxmox 1.5 supports KSM.

Does 'ksmtuned' run on your system (package ksm-control-daemon)? KSM onyl starts merging memory when you use more that half of your physical memory.

 

[dietmar]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

As far as ive read this adapter has kernel support from 2.6.27 and up.

You already tested with kernel 2.6.18?

 

[cschnee]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

Hello,

Another manic monday...
I have just been hit with the issue described here:
http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=rview&goto=38737&th=8210

and I havent found any occurence of "Route hash chain to long" in this forum, so I guess I am the first one to encounter this with proxmox.

I have 4 OpenVZ containers and 1 KVM guest on this Host running with 2.6.18-1-pve and saw this issue for the first time. Now I am wondering if and which kernel contains the fix for http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409 .

On another note: How can I identify which vz Version I am running resp. which version of vz a kernel has ?

Thanks for any helps and pointers in advance,
Christoph

 

[baserz]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

You already tested with kernel 2.6.18?

No my new server is not yet assembled (as i wroteearlier it will be done wednesday). Though i assumed what ninjix wrote earlier is correct in that he needed to use clonezilla to get proxmox to run combined with the searches i did on google wich led me to sources (amongst other this containing "I'm guessing that it's a gen2 controller (PCI id 1000:0079). These have been supported by megaraid_sas since Linux 2.6.27") saying that support for the 9260 was implemented in 2.6.27 that it wouldnt work.

Thats why i asked the question regarding multi kernel installer since i thought ive seen one of you admins mention a multi kernel version was on the table. But i perhaps misunderstood it and you meant the 1.5 multikernel support release thus not selectable at install.

As soon as my new motherboard arrives i will be able to test it and see for myself if i need to do the same as Ninjix seems to have done, or im able to install it directly on hw raid span and the upgrade the kernel(would be great if i could). Until then i just thought it could be proactive to ask status of what i thought was something you perhaps worked on.

 

[dietmar]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

Now I am wondering if and which kernel contains the fix for http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409 .

Seems this one will fix it:

http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel5/028stab067.4

I will try compile and upload that new version today.

On another note: How can I identify which vz Version I am running resp. which version of vz a kernel has ?

You can insepct the changelog:

# zless /usr/share/doc/pve-kernel-2.6.18-1-pve/changelog.Debian.gz

 

[cschnee]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

Thanks for your quick reaction and your answer regarding changelog.

I guess temporarily using 2.6.24-10 wouldn't change anything ? I was unable to figure out which openvz is used in 2.6.24-10 using the changelog file so I am unsure if its worth a try.

Christoph

 

[Sorcerer]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

Hi,

i had the same Problem with "Route hash chain to long" last week.

I updated my proxmox server from kernel 2.6.24 proxmox 1.4 to kernel 2.6.18 proxmox 1.5.

After the Update the server runs 1 week faultless, then the error "Route hash chain to long" ocours.

After a update to kernel 2.6.24-10 (proxmox 1.5) the problem was away.

Greets,

Marcel

 

[dietmar]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

I guess temporarily using 2.6.24-10 wouldn't change anything ? I was unable to figure out which openvz is used in 2.6.24-10 using the changelog file so I am unsure if its worth a try.

For 2.6.24 it is the latest source from:

http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.24-openvz;a=summary

But I just uploaded new 2.6.18 version to ther pvetest repository (which include a fix for this bug).

 

[juaserco]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

2.6.32 working grea, but open-iscsi not connect to iscsi server. Error message "invalid ioctl cmd c070690d". On kernel 2.6.24 work ok.

I'm having same problem prochap had, when using proxmox as an iscsitarget.

iSCSI Enterprise Target Software - version 1.4.19
iscsi_trgt: Registered io type fileio
iscsi_trgt: Registered io type blockio
iscsi_trgt: Registered io type nullio
iscsi_trgt: ioctl(299) invalid ioctl cmd c070690d

when I run a discover on a client all seem to work fine, but when I try to login I get:

iscsiadm: Could not login to [iface: default, target: iqn.2010-01.es.upv:b881, portal: 10.0.1.12,3260]:
iscsiadm: initiator reported error (5 - encountered iSCSI login failure)

Any ideas?

 

[dietmar]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

I'm having same problem prochap had, when using proxmox as an iscsitarget.

seem the iscsiadm tools are too old for kernel 2.6.32

 

[juaserco]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

I have installed open-iscsi and iscsitarget from squeeze, now when I try to connect the error is "initiator reported error (15 - already exists)". I shuold compile the open-iscsi, maybe another day.
I'll post the solution if i find it.
Thanks for all.

 

[dietmar]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

Hi,
I'm testing kernel 2.6.32 KSM feature.
I have two running XP VMs and it seems like KSM is not active.

I just uploaded a bug fix for the ksm-control-daemon package. Please can you update an test?

 

[eMHa]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

Hello,

seem the iscsiadm tools are too old for kernel 2.6.32

i just stumbled accross this while fighting with the new squeeze kernel 2.6.32-trunk-amd64. It seems the iscsitarget and/or iscsitarget modules are incompatible with this kernel. iscsiadm is from open-iscsi and works on kernel 2.6.32.

I have two squeeze boxes, one with 2.6.30-2-amd64 and the other with 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 booted, the rest is the same.

I can iscsiadmin login with 32 to 30. But not the other way.
Another notice is that I had to use a newer iscsitarget kernel module because the one shipped with squeeze are to old to compile against 2.6.32! Perhaps there's the problem?

Hope this helps someone...

 

[juaserco]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

Thanks a lot eMHa, that was the clue.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566740
After changing that: http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/iscsitarget/trunk/patches/compat-2.6.31.patch?rev=280&sc=1
I have compiled de iscsitarget-source and now all works fine.

 

[baserz]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

Just got my new server assembled and proxmox seems to install without issues so forget what i asked about earlier. Havent upgraded the kernel yet but seems to be working fine at a first glance on default kernel as well(dont know about performance yet, just that it runs). If anyone else wondered about it.

Edit: Ended up in the wrong thread it seems, sorry bout that.

 

[cschnee]

Re: New Proxmox VE Kernels (2.6.18 - 2.6.24 - 2.6.32)

But I just uploaded new 2.6.18 version to ther pvetest repository (which include a fix for this bug).

Thanks for the quick fix, I installed 2.6.18-2 on 2 servers on wednesday this week and so far I haven't seen anymore problems.