Snappy on Digital Ocean

[Scott Moser]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Jim Kopps wrote:

> Can snappy currently be run and developed for on a Digital Ocean droplet? I
> have tried getting it going on an Ubuntu 14.04 droplet with 4g of ram, but
> have had no luck.
>
>  I have been using the KVM on Linux approach and problems arise when trying
> to launch the kvm virtual machine. Perhaps trying to run kvm on kvm is
> creating the problem? Or, it appears from the errors that I am seeing, that
> the lack of a desktop might be an issue, but snappy is all cli, so, maybe
> not.
>
> At any rate, I am willing to keep plugging away if there is a belief that
> it can be done, but I might need a little direction on what to look at
> next. If it is better for everyone involved that I just abandon this
> approach, that is good too.

nested kvm does not seem to work on digital ocean in one instance I tried.

$ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm disk.img -nographic
KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0x0
EAX=00000000 EBX=00000000 ECX=00000000 EDX=00000663
ESI=00000000 EDI=00000000 EBP=00000000 ESP=00000000
EIP=0000fff0 EFL=00000002 [-------] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0
ES =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
CS =f000 ffff0000 0000ffff 00009b00
SS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
DS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
FS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
GS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200
TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00
GDT=     00000000 0000ffff
IDT=     00000000 0000ffff
CR0=60000010 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000
DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000
DR3=0000000000000000
DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400
EFER=0000000000000000
Code=00 66 89 d8 66 e8 02 f7 ff ff 66 83 c4 0c 66 5b 66 5e 66 c3 <ea> 5b
e0 00 f0 30 36 2f 32 33 2f 39 39 00 fc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00

It does seem to work without kvm acceleration (removing '-enable-kvm' from
qemu-system-x86_64 command line) but its a bit slower, as you'd expect.

sm

>
> Thanks much,
>
> Jim Kopps
>
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