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Help running OVA on Unraid

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Hello everyone,

 

I'm after some help with loading an OVA image of QRadar CE onto an Unraid VM.  I know that Unraid uses KVM as the base VM tooling.  So I've trying the options I've found googling and from reading through the forum posts but I'm still not having any luck.

 

I've copied over the OVA file and then run the following code:-

 

tar xvf QRadarCE733GA_v1_0.ova

then

qemu-img convert -O qcow2 QCE-jan22-disk1.vmdk QCE-jan22-disk1.qcow2

and then built a new VM and manually assigned the disk to 

/mnt/user/domains/QRadar/QCE-jan22-disk1.qcow2

 

But when I try to boot the new VM I get the following error:-

Starting Dracut Emergency Shell...
Warning: /dev/centos/root does not exist
Warning: /dev/centos/swap does not exist
Warning: /dev/centos/centos-root does not exist

Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to continue.

 

When I exit the Dracut shell I get told to regenerate the initramfs (not a clue how to do this, next on the list to google) but the original OVA has all the needed disks and I've even tried to build this in a separate VMWare Workstation Pro system and this worked fine without any problems, so I know the OVA is good.  I've also had the same error when I tried to build the KVM VM from the VMWare one and got the same errors.

 

The logs from the KVM are below in case they provide some clue to you all which I've missed:-

-no-user-config \
-nodefaults \
-chardev socket,id=charmonitor,fd=47,server,nowait \
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control \
-rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew \
-global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=delay \
-no-hpet \
-no-shutdown \
-boot strict=on \
-device pcie-root-port,port=0x10,chassis=1,id=pci.1,bus=pcie.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x2 \
-device pcie-root-port,port=0x11,chassis=2,id=pci.2,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x2.0x1 \
-device pcie-root-port,port=0x12,chassis=3,id=pci.3,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x2.0x2 \
-device pcie-root-port,port=0x13,chassis=4,id=pci.4,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x2.0x3 \
-device pcie-root-port,port=0x14,chassis=5,id=pci.5,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x2.0x4 \
-device ich9-usb-ehci1,id=usb,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x7.0x7 \
-device ich9-usb-uhci1,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=0,bus=pcie.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x7 \
-device ich9-usb-uhci2,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=2,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x7.0x1 \
-device ich9-usb-uhci3,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=4,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x7.0x2 \
-device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.2,addr=0x0 \
-blockdev '{"driver":"file","filename":"/mnt/user/domains/QRadar/QCE-jan22-disk1.qcow2","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","cache":{"direct":false,"no-flush":false},"auto-read-only":true,"discard":"unmap"}' \
-blockdev '{"node-name":"libvirt-1-format","read-only":false,"cache":{"direct":false,"no-flush":false},"driver":"qcow2","file":"libvirt-1-storage","backing":null}' \
-device ide-hd,bus=ide.2,drive=libvirt-1-format,id=sata0-0-2,bootindex=1,write-cache=on \
-netdev tap,fd=50,id=hostnet0 \
-device virtio-net,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:37:c0:7f,bus=pci.1,addr=0x0 \
-chardev pty,id=charserial0 \
-device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 \
-chardev socket,id=charchannel0,fd=51,server,nowait \
-device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0 \
-device usb-tablet,id=input0,bus=usb.0,port=1 \
-vnc 0.0.0.0:8,websocket=5708 \
-k en-us \
-device qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,vram64_size_mb=0,vgamem_mb=16,max_outputs=1,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1 \
-device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.4,addr=0x0 \
-sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,resourcecontrol=deny \
-msg timestamp=on
2022-08-01 19:29:47.134+0000: Domain id=29 is tainted: high-privileges
2022-08-01 19:29:47.134+0000: Domain id=29 is tainted: host-cpu
char device redirected to /dev/pts/9 (label charserial0)
2022-08-01T19:53:09.026626Z qemu-system-x86_64: terminating on signal 15 from pid 4858 (/usr/sbin/libvirtd)
2022-08-01 19:53:09.226+0000: shutting down, reason=destroyed

 

And the XML of the VM is below:-

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<domain type='kvm'>
  <name>QRadarCE</name>
  <uuid>1bfecf6c-e4dd-0710-9714-3ca50dc20fbe</uuid>
  <description>Qradar CE</description>
  <metadata>
    <vmtemplate xmlns="unraid" name="Linux" icon="linux.png" os="linux"/>
  </metadata>
  <memory unit='KiB'>33030144</memory>
  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>16777216</currentMemory>
  <memoryBacking>
    <nosharepages/>
  </memoryBacking>
  <vcpu placement='static'>8</vcpu>
  <cputune>
    <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='2'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='18'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='3'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='19'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='4' cpuset='10'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='5' cpuset='26'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='6' cpuset='11'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='7' cpuset='27'/>
  </cputune>
  <os>
    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-5.1'>hvm</type>
  </os>
  <features>
    <acpi/>
    <apic/>
  </features>
  <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none' migratable='on'>
    <topology sockets='1' dies='1' cores='4' threads='2'/>
    <cache mode='passthrough'/>
  </cpu>
  <clock offset='utc'>
    <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/>
    <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/>
    <timer name='hpet' present='no'/>
  </clock>
  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
  <on_crash>restart</on_crash>
  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/local/sbin/qemu</emulator>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='writeback'/>
      <source file='/mnt/user/domains/QRadar/QCE-jan22-disk1.qcow2'/>
      <target dev='hdc' bus='sata'/>
      <boot order='1'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='2'/>
    </disk>
    <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-ehci1'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x7'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci1'>
      <master startport='0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci2'>
      <master startport='2'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x1'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'>
      <master startport='4'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x2'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pcie-root'/>
    <controller type='pci' index='1' model='pcie-root-port'>
      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='1' port='0x10'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='2' model='pcie-root-port'>
      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='2' port='0x11'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x1'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='3' model='pcie-root-port'>
      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='3' port='0x12'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x2'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='4' model='pcie-root-port'>
      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='4' port='0x13'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x3'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='5' model='pcie-root-port'>
      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='5' port='0x14'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x4'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='sata' index='0'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1f' function='0x2'/>
    </controller>
    <interface type='bridge'>
      <mac address='52:54:00:37:c0:7f'/>
      <source bridge='br0'/>
      <model type='virtio-net'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>
    <serial type='pty'>
      <target type='isa-serial' port='0'>
        <model name='isa-serial'/>
      </target>
    </serial>
    <console type='pty'>
      <target type='serial' port='0'/>
    </console>
    <channel type='unix'>
      <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/>
      <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/>
    </channel>
    <input type='tablet' bus='usb'>
      <address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/>
    </input>
    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
    <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>
    <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' websocket='-1' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='en-us'>
      <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/>
    </graphics>
    <video>
      <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/>
    </video>
    <memballoon model='virtio'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x04' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </memballoon>
  </devices>
</domain>

 

Any help or advice would be greatly welcome!  

  • 2 weeks later...
  • Author

Anyone able to help me?  Or please let me know if I'm missing something obvious.

 

  • 4 weeks later...
  • Author

Anyone able to confirm that they can actually see this post?

 

 

  • Community Expert
On 8/11/2022 at 6:02 PM, 1979 said:

Anyone able to help me?  Or please let me know if I'm missing something obvious.

 

Not sure if you need more disks for the missing areas.

 

But what does the following show.

 

Open the associated ovf file and look at following parameters

Disk ovf:capacity for each disk. The same should be visible while importing existing disk in virt-manager later

Number of Virtual CPUs (ResourceType 3)

Memory Size (ResourceType 4)

PCNet32 ethernet adapter (ResourceType PCNet32)

 

 

https://wiki.hackzine.org/sysadmin/kvm-import-ova.html

Try seabios and ovmf, try different type of disk controller emulation (normaly sata works for vbox but....) you can try ide,virtio, scsi...use latest q35...

 

PS: from this blog if you open there xml you can see that they use ide controller for the disk emulation.

Edited by ilarion

  • 2 weeks later...
On 9/5/2022 at 2:04 PM, ilarion said:

 

PS: from this blog if you open there xml you can see that they use ide controller for the disk emulation.

 

ilarion has the right idea. you will need to set the disk controller to IDE.

 

along side this I had the following set in my template (Unraid GUI)

 

Machine: i440fx-5.1

Bios: SeaBIOS

Primary vDisk: manual and set to the qcow2 you extracted

Primary vDisk Bus: IDE

Graphics Card: VNC

Network Model: vertio-net

I have set up a few CE installs on Unraid without too much issue. Feel free to ask additional Q's

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