NOKIA vSIM takes one hour to boot in EVE-NG V5

[fca]

Hello,
I'm using NOKIA vSIM in EVE-NG 2 since many months with no specific problem in a Windows host running VM Workstation. My computer is Core I5 with 32 GB RAM, SSD Hard drive and Intel VT is activated.
In EVE-NG V2 I can start 2 Nokia vSIM at same time and the boot time takes approx. 1 minute and 20 sec with a full config.

Recently, I've decided to install a brand new EVE-NG 5 VM using the ova file provided, did all the upgrades available, configure all my /opt/unetlab/addons with equivalent files that I've on my EVE-NG 2 setup, run the fixpermission, wimport my lab from EVE-NG 2, wipe the router config and start one of my NOKIA vSIM. It took more than one hour to start !
The boot sequence only differs on this section from v2 to v5 (watchdog statement) :

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Executing TiMOS image at 0x12A000

Watchdog: Task 0x1ad1bdf4 (sysMonitor) blocked for 632 ticks.
  1823bdf4 vxTaskEntry    +14 : sysMonitorTask (0, 0, 0, 0)
  181ab9b5 sysMonitorTask +1c8: taskDelay (14, eeeeeeee, eeeeeeee, eeeeeeee)
  182c6834 taskDelay      +112: windKernelExit (14, eeeeeeee, eeeeeeee, 1800c77d)

Running in a KVM/QEMU virtual machine

I've tried SROS-13.0R6 and SROS-19.10R8 with a lot of different HW confirguration (CPU, Memory, Network card, etc..)

The EVE-NG v5 uname -a :

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Linux eve-ng 5.17.8-eve-ng-uksm-wg+ #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon May 16 10:08:59 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The EVE-NG v2 unmae -a :

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Linux eve-ng.inuit.fca 4.20.17-eve-ng-ukms+ #2 SMP Wed Jun 5 08:18:06 CEST 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Any one has an idea ?

Thanks for your help,
Franck

[fca]

Hello,

it seems related to EVE-NG VM setup within VMWare Workstation. If I change CPU settings from :

- Number of processors : 1
- Number of cores per processor : 4

To :
- Number of processors : 4
- Number of cores per processor : 1

The watchdog message disappear, and the router boots up in 19 minutes instead of 1 hour. Still not usable but better.

My CPU is :

2022-07-05 09_44_08-Courrier.png

Any suggestion on how I should configure the VM within VMWare to allocate max CPU to nested routers ?

Franck.

[Ozzy]

Seems to me I have similar problem? Brand new installation of EVE-NG Community 5.0.1-13. Latest update. Cisco CRS1000 is working just fine, can boot in a minute. Unfortunately Nokia image (tried release 19 and 20) get stuck and did not reboot/send any error nor finish booting procces. On console, it stopped there:

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Total Memory: 10GB  Chassis Type: 0x1f  Core Freq: 2992.968 MHz
TiMOS-L-19.10.R8 boot/i386 Nokia 7750 SR Copyright (c) 2000-2020 Nokia.
All rights reserved. All use subject to applicable license agreements.
Built on Wed Oct 7 17:26:44 PDT 2020 by builder in /builds/c/1910B/R8/panos/main

TiMOS BOOT LOADER
Time from clock is TUE AUG 02 09:13:37 2022 UTC
Switching serial output to sync mode...   done

Looking for cf3:/bof.cfg ... OK, reading

Contents of Boot Options File on cf3:
    primary-image    cf3:\timos\i386-both.tim
    primary-config   cf3:\config.cfg
    autonegotiate
    duplex           full
    speed            100
    wait             3
    persist          off
    no li-local-save
    no li-separate
    console-speed    115200

Hit a key within 1 second to change boot parameters...    

Primary image location: cf3:\timos\i386-both.tim
Loading image cf3:\timos\i386-both.tim
Version B-19.10.R8, Wed Oct  7 17:26:44 PDT 2020 by builder in /builds/c/1910B/R8/panos/main
text:(77395136-->257045968) + data:(43325056-->166723520)
No license file specified
Executing TiMOS image at 0x14C000

KVM based vcpu
Running in a KVM/QEMU virtual machine
ACPI: found 4 cores, 4 enabled
2 virtio net devices are detected

Any idea ? Someone with similar problem ? Some kind of bug somewhere ?

[Uldis (UD)]

Already answered, and stop make double posts