[xcat-user] failed to provision ESX VM, because of ipmi_si.ko

[Aaron Knister]

What hardware were you trying to provision? It looks as though it  
failed loading the ipmi kernel module because no ipmi hardware was  
found.

On Sep 20, 2009, at 9:09 AM, cyliu7 wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> i met another problem when provisioning ESX VMs. does anyone know  
> what's the problem?
>
> after rpoweron the VM, it can successfully communicate with xcat,  
> and get ip address.  after load xcat/nbk.x86 xcat/nbfs.x86.gz, it  
> run into
>
> MAC discovery begin :
> ------192.168.0.1 ping statistic------                  (Cyliu: OK)
> 1 package transmitted, 1 packages received, 0% packages loss
> insmod cannot insert '/lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/kernel/drivers/ 
> char/ipmi/ipmi_si.ko': no such device (-1)
> modprobe: failed to load module ipmi_si.lo              (Cyliu:  
> failed)
> ...
>
> goto back to ping again
>
> following are some configuration:
> ---vm table---
> "vm4","xavmo03",,,"nfs://vmodev01/opt/data/vmImages","512","1","VM  
> Network2","netboot,hd",,,,,,,
>
> ---nodetype table---
> "rhel5u3","rhel5u3","x86_64","compute","esx",,
>
> ---noderes table---
> "vm4",,"esx","mn20","mn20",,,,"eth0",,,,,,,
> #mn20 is the xcat management node, it's ip is 192.168.0.1
>
> ---nodehm table---
> "vm4",,"esx",,,,,,,,,,
>
> ---site table---
> [root at xavmo01 xcat]# tabdump site
> #key,value,comments,disable
> "xcatdport","3001",,
> "xcatiport","3002",,
> "tftpdir","/tftpboot",,
> "installdir","/install",,
> "installloc","/install",,
> "master","mn20",,
> "domain","cluster.net",,
> "timezone","America/New_York",,
> "nameservers","192.168.0.1",,
> "dhcpinterfaces","mn20|eth1",,
>
> thanks!
>
> ------------------------
> Chunyang Liu
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