Question about MAAS and KVM PXE

wahi wahi at sci.am
Fri Jul 21 08:18:09 UTC 2017


Hi Mike,

Actually Lloyd suggestion was rigth, the issue was from the iptables, I 
opened the 5240 port and it worked. The interesting question is, what is 
the default username and password for KVM PXE VM (Ubuntu 16.04)


Best,

  Wahi


On 07/21/2017 10:58 AM, Mike Pontillo wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 7:36 AM, wahi <wahi at sci.am 
> <mailto:wahi at sci.am>> wrote:
>
>     On 07/20/2017 10:56 PM, Lloyd Parkes wrote:
>
>         The error message indicates that the VM couldn’t download its
>         bootstrap from the server using the TFTP protocol. The TFTP
>         protocol isn’t used when installing from an ISO.
>
>         I can think of two things to check.
>
>         First of all, got to Nodes -> Controllers and select your rack
>         controller. Then select the Services tab and check that there
>         is a green tick next to the “tftp” item. If there isn’t a
>         green tick, then you will have to search the MAAS logs under
>         /var/log/maas/ for possible problems.
>
>         Secondly, there is always the possibility of a firewall
>         blocking tftp traffic. This could be on your server or on your
>         network.
>
>
> In addition to Lloyd's suggestions, you can try using this script for 
> testing:
>
> https://git.launchpad.net/maas/tree/scripts/maas-test-enlistment
>
> If you run this script manually from the same network as the nodes are 
> booting from (using the private IP address, 10.0.17.1, as the 
> parameter) you should be able to check that the TFTP files are 
> accessible and the cloud parameters are correct (that is, the MAAS 
> metadata server that cloud-init will contact is reachable and 
> providing correct metadata URLs for booting nodes).
>
> Regards,
> Mike

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