2018-02-02 Install OEL 7.4
Overview
My previous three (3) attempts to install Grid Infrastructure (GI) 12.1.0.2 failed for various reasons. This time I am changing my approach to do a slower installation.
VICTORIA has been upgraded to OVMS 3.4.4. Since I did not save the REDFERN VMs, I had to rebuild them from scratch.
References
Procedure
Operating System Installation
Installed OEL 7 off CD-ROM. (See Install Oracle Enterprise Linux 7.4.)
Convert VM from HVM to PV
The operating system was installed into the VM image while it was running in Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM) mode. I am now want to run the VM in paravitualised (PV) mode.
When I tried to follow the procedure in Convert XEN HVM to PV, I get the following error messages:
Parsing config from /OVS/running_pool/REDFERN/redfern1/redfern1.cfg libxl: error: libxl_bootloader.c:628:bootloader_finished: bootloader failed - consult logfile /var/log/xen/bootloader.5.log libxl: error: libxl_exec.c:118:libxl_report_child_exitstatus: bootloader [-1] exited with error status 1 libxl: error: libxl_create.c:1027:domcreate_rebuild_done: cannot (re-)build domain: -3
The contents of /var/log/xen/bootloader.5.log is:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/xen/bin/pygrub", line 931, in <module> raise RuntimeError, "Unable to find partition containing kernel" RuntimeError: Unable to find partition containing kernel
Revert to HVM
6.70 Oracle Linux 7 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 Not Supported For PV Guests says:
Although Oracle Linux 7 and RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 are supported for both hardware virtualization (HVM) and hardware virtualization with paravirtual drivers (PVHVM), it is not possible to run either of these operating systems as paravirtualized domains (PVM). This is due to kernel restrictions in both Oracle Linux 7 and RHEL 7.
I left the VM image in HVM mode.