qcow images not loading

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mrneteng
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qcow images not loading

Post by mrneteng » Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:09 am

I have a new eve-ng setup on my ESXi host. It has 4 vCPU and 6 GB of memory. I am trying without success to get it to recognize my qcow images. (Source image is asav971.qcow2. I also tried csr1000v image with same error. Images are verified as working in VIRL.)

I have followed all of the steps in the FAQ, double-checked the permissions, even restarted the server, cleared browser cache, tried other browsers etc. No matter what I do the "Add node" selections in a lab remain grayed out.

Here is my relevant directory confirming I re-ran "fixpermissions" and also my system info:

root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav# /opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions

root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav# ls -al
total 195732
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 20 07:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 20 07:28 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200416666 Aug 20 07:00 hda.qcow2
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav#
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav#
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav#
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav# uname -a
Linux eve-ng 4.4.14-eve-ng-ukms+ #1 SMP Mon Dec 19 23:28:33 CET 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav#
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav# dpkg -l eve-ng
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=====================================-=======================-=======================-================================================================================
ii eve-ng 2.0.3-68 amd64 A new generation software for networking labs.
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav#
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav# brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
pnet0 8000.000c2914310a no eth0
pnet1 8000.000000000000 no
pnet2 8000.000000000000 no
pnet3 8000.000000000000 no
pnet4 8000.000000000000 no
pnet5 8000.000000000000 no
pnet6 8000.000000000000 no
pnet7 8000.000000000000 no
pnet8 8000.000000000000 no
pnet9 8000.000000000000 no
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav#
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 2.9G 0 2.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 597M 14M 584M 3% /run
/dev/mapper/eve--ng--vg-root 24G 8.1G 14G 37% /
tmpfs 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 472M 143M 305M 32% /boot
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav#
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav# kvm-ok
INFO: /dev/kvm exists
KVM acceleration can be used
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav#

mrneteng
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Re: qcow images not loading

Post by mrneteng » Sun Aug 20, 2017 6:27 am

SOLVED - had to tweak the folder name.

Subsequent issue noted in another related thread (QEMU architecture not set).

http://www.eve-ng.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=797

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