OpenNebula 4 with KVM and Openvswitch using only one server

As I’ve only one server, I’m forced to install OpenNebula and KVM virtualization in the same machine. If you want to know how I configured and installed openvswitch read my previous posts.

Let’s begin installing some packages:

yum install qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-tools libvirt virt-manager

Install the opennebula-node-kvm rpm package (read my previous post for more information) as it’ll configure for you  qemu and a policy allowing oneadmin user to use the virtualization api.

yum localinstall opennebula-node-kvm-4.0.1-1.x86_64.rpm

Start the libvirtd service and configure it to start at boot

#/etc/init.d/libvirtd start
Starting daemon libvirtd: [ OK ]
# chkconfig libvirtd on

Warning: if you’re using SELinux run this command so the authorized keys is accesible for passwordless login using ssh. Also, I’ve change the context for the /var/lib/one/datastore directory to avoid a Permission Denied error (/var/lib/one/datastores/0/0/disk.0: Permission denied) when trying to run a VM with KVM.

chcon -v --type=ssh_home_t /var/lib/one/.ssh/authorized_keys
chcon -R --type=virt_image_t /var/lib/one/datastores

Create the /var/tmp/one directory and change the ownership

# mkdir /var/tmp/one
# chown oneadmin:oneadmin /var/tmp/one

If you’re using server names, you have to be sure that there’s an entry in your DNS or /etc/hosts for the server name, e.g I have an entry in the /etc/hosts for my server haddock.macto.local

Now as the oneadmin user, let’s create the host with a KVM hypervisor and openvswitch.and check that no errors are shown. Also try to open a ssh to check that no password is used, this will insert your host in the known_hosts file and will prevent ” Host key verification failed” error when monitoring your host.

# su oneadmin
$ ssh oneadmin@haddock.macto.local
The authenticity of host 'haddock.macto.local(192.168.1.20)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is ....
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
$ exit

$ onehost create haddock.macto.local -i kvm -v kvm -n ovswitch
ID: 0
$ onehost list
ID NAME CLUSTER RVM ALLOCATED_CPU ALLOCATED_MEM STAT
0 haddock.macto.l - 0 0 / 200 (0%) 0K / 5.6G (0%) on

OK status is on, and my host looks good in Sunstone GUI. Perfect.

If “err” is shown after executing the onehost list command, check /var/lib/one/oned.log for errors. I was having the following error because I haven’t installed opennebula-node-kvm after libvirt installation: “error: authentication failed: Authorization requires authentication but no agent is available”

If you’re running openvswitch you can avoid the following errors editing the sudoers file.

• sudo: sorry you must have a tty to run sudo
• sudo: Error deploying virtual machine: sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified

Edit the sudoers file with visudo and comment the line “Defaults requiretty” , then add the following lines at the end of the file:

oneadmin ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/iptables
oneadmin ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/ebtables
oneadmin ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/ovs-vsctl
oneadmin ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/ovs-ofctl

I’ve also found sometimes this error:

WARNING **: Error connecting to bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

I decided to reboot the machine and the monitor status changed to on.

Tomorrow I’ll explain how to run a virtual machine in OpenNebula.

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