4.2.1. Startup Issues¶

Virtual Service Router cannot start¶

Symptoms

systemctl status turbo shows issues

Hints

Check memory, huge pages usage

OVA startup fails¶

Symptoms

With VMware 6.0 and vSphere desktop client, starting Virtual Service Router VM from OVA file fails with the following message:
```
The OVF package is invalid and cannot be deployed.
```

See https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2151537.

Hints

Use the vSphere HTML5 client (the desktop client is deprecated).
Repackage the OVA file to use SHA1 hashing instead of the latest SHA256 using ovftool available at https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ovf/.
```
#  ovftool --shaAlgorithm=SHA1 /path/to/original/file.ova /path/to/new/file-sha1.ova
```

SR-IOV problems¶

Symptoms

Starting a VM (with PCI passthrough in its conf) with libvirt fails, yielding:

error: unsupported configuration: host doesn't support passthrough of host PCI devices

Your XML libvirt domain contains something like this:

<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>
  <source>
    <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x83' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
  </source>
</hostdev>

Hints

Your NIC and your motherboard must support SR-IOV, and the Linux kernel must have booted with appropriate options. Enable the Directed I/O parameter in the BIOS, and ensure “intel_iommu=on” is provided in the kernel command line.