vSR on VMWare Workstation

[PeterL]

I've successfully got vSR 12.08 working under RHEL 6.6 as a qcow2 image. But what I was really wanting is to have vSR working as a VMWare Image I can run under ESX and / or Workstation.

I've successfully converted the qcow2 file into a vmdk using qemu-img using these instructions: http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/c ... rting.html

Then I setup a serial port as a named pipe and can use Putty on my windows machine to access "\\.\pipe\com_1" using this blog: http://www.arkf.net/blog/?p=199

After juggling around with the OS and making sure I add it as an IDE on controller zero, I get the console to show up (and it detects it's vmware). But after TiMOS has booted it always crashes.

The first watchdog I get is just at the DNS stage:

Initializing VMM
Virtual address sharing is disabled
platformVmRestrict: unsupported hypervisor: VMWARE (2)

Time from clock is MON MAR 16 17:22:26 2015 UTC
Initial DNS resolving preference is ipv4-only

Watchdog: Task 0x2016c6d8 (sysMonitor) blocked for 180 ticks.
6158772 vxTaskEntry +12 : 4332d2a (0, 0, 0, 0)
4332d8b sysMonitorTask +1ef: taskDelay (14, 1, 1, eeeeeeee)

System Crash Dump Written - Please run the command
`admin tech-support` and contact your Alcatel-Lucent
support representative.

Then I see an error about remapping PCI devices which is the ethernet device pci device 32.

Rebooting...
Using preloaded VxWorks boot loader at 0x00008000, size 0x00098000, entrypoint 0x00008010
WARNING: PCI configuration may be wrong. Can't remap found pci device number (2,32)

Has anyone managed to get a working vmx file with and could they paste the file?

[Stoffen]

Havent tried on VM ware, but since release 13.0.R1, a .OVA file is present in the VM download from ALU.
Perhaps that would work better for you.

[rasputinlv]

I got OVA going on ESXI, but interfaces not showing up after provisioning IOM3.

[rasputinlv]

never mind, forgot to provision MDA

[PeterL]

Yep I have 13.2 working too.
And it seem to now have PPPoE support in there as well.

Going to have a bit of a play with it tomorrow and see what I can make work.

Using the Named Pipe in server mode works fine using Putty and VMWare workstation. I would assume VMWare player would work the same as well.

[TMCSWUSA]

I followed the document but when my VM goes to start it stops @ Booting...... I am using Workstation 12 Player. Can my image be bad or is this common?

[jbt]

HI,
i am having the same issue of the vSR stuck at boot. i am using 13.0R5 and tried in VMware workstation as well ESXi with OVA and tried 13.0R1 to R5 with same result. As soon vm is powered up, it stuck in boot...

any help will appreciated.

thanks
jbt

[jbt]

HI,
i am having the same issue of the vSR stuck at boot. i am using 13.0R5 and tried in VMware workstation as well ESXi with OVA and tried 13.0R1 to R5 with same result. As soon vm is powered up, it stuck in Booting...

any help will appreciated.

thanks
jbt

[didigno]

Working for me, which settings do you have for your VMs?

[jbt]

what are specific settings? are you running Workstation or Esxi?