Setting up Citrix Netscaler VPX Express on Proxmox 3.4 Cluster

[Anduril]

Dear all,

I have a working Proxmox 3.4, 2 Node Cluster. Everything works fine so far. Great work Developers!

Now I wanted to add a prebuild KVM Image "Citrix Netscaler VPX Express Appliance 10.5" and so the problem starts.

I uploaded the *.raw Image of the HDD to the local Storage of one Clusternode.
Then I investigated the KVM-Description-File (it's XML) for the Appliance to set the Configuration Parameters correct.
The Controller should be "IDE", the Networkcard "virtio". No Problem so far. I created a new KVM machine and added the HDD to it.
But when I start the Machine it hangs with .... default/loader.conf .... on the Bootloader.

As far as I know is, that Netscaler is based on freeBSD 6.
I googled around but found nothing helpful.

To test if the machine works, i installed a debian wheezy on another machine and imported the Appliance successfully.

Does anybody could help, to get Netscaler working on Proxmox?

Thanks in advance

Anduril

 

[wolfgang]

Hi,
what a kind of Hardware emulation you are using (OS)?
I recognized that some times BSD runs only as Linux (Linux 3.X/2.6 Kernel (l26))!
you can also try Solaris Kernel.

 

[mir]

Emulation 'Other' works for most FreeBSD but for processor you should try lowest common denominator which is 'qemu32' or 'qemu64'.

 

[musangberjanggut]

Hi Guys,

any update on this? i remember, i did load the image to openstack same goes happened. but i just add vm_mode = hvm to the image property and the guest able to boot smoothly. does proxmox able to do this also? please advise.

thanks

 

[hans]

Hi,

Anyone managed to get the kvm image running on proxmox?
Please let us know. Thanks

 

[hans]

Hi,
Cannot get the supplied kvm image to work. However downloaded the esx appliance (10.5-59.11) extracted the vmdk and converted it using
qemu-img convert -O qcow2 NSVPX-ESX-10.5-59.11_nc-disk1.vmdk chooseaname.qcow2
And created a new vm with:
2 cpu, 2 GB RAM and a virtio nic and virtio disk, os type solaris and cpu kvm64.
And now it boots and runs.

 

[paradizelost]

I know i'm responding to an old post, but i'm hoping this helps someone else out.
the serial console response here: pve-devel.pve.proxmox.narkive.com/lxvXGB1P/citrix-netscaler
worked for me
add "serial0: socket" to the VMID.conf

I was successfully able to get this working using the KVM image.