Dear Maintainer,

Creating a new instance, looselly following:
https://ahwhattheheck.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/migrating-vms-from-a-libvirt-setup-to-a-ganeti-cluster/
as done before.

gnt-instance add -B vcpus=${VCPUS},minmem=${MINMEM},maxmem=${MAXMEM} \
        -H
kvm:kernel_path='',machine_version='q35',nic_type='paravirtual',disk_ty
pe='paravirtual',scsi_controller_type='virtio-scsi-
pci',usb_mouse='tablet',keymap='es',use_guest_agent=true \
        -t drbd --disk 0:size=${DISK_SIZE_0} \
        -t drbd --disk 1:size=${DISK_SIZE_1} \
        -n ${NODE1}:${NODE2} \
        -o debootstrap+default \
        --net 0:mac=${MAC},link=${VMBR} \ 
        --no-ip-check --no-name-check \ 
        --no-install --no-wait-for-sync ${VMNAME} 

And then writting a qemu image to the DRBD devices

No errors yet

but, on start I get:

root@hostname:~# gnt-instance start VMNAME
Waiting for job 60574 for VMNAME ...
Job 60574 for VMNAME has failed: Failure: command execution error:
Could not start instance 'VMNAME': Hypervisor error: Failed to start
instance VMNAME: exited with exit code 1 (kvm: -usbdevice tablet: '-
usbdevice' is deprecated, please use '-device usb-...' instead
)


It seems weird, because the very same was reported and fixed on a pre
3.0 branch: https://github.com/ganeti/ganeti/issues/1338

Spent a few hours on this, but unable to find a workaround


Thanks for the help and, BTW: thanks for this great software


Best Regards

Carlos Pasqualini

Hi again

I found in the logs that the instance was failing because of
machine_version='q35' setting, and not related to the kvm command
output.

See: https://github.com/ganeti/ganeti/issues/1388



So, the severity of this bug can be decreased further, as the subject
is just a deprecation warning, needs to be fixed some day, but still
works.


Thanks!

Hi!

I also got hit by the same warning on the logs that completelly misleaded me
(thinking it was the error stopping me). I wanted to comment just in case
some other people may also get hit by it.

After upgrading a cluster from buster to bullseye I couldn't bring the
guests back to my upgraded nodes. Ganeti would refuse to move them because
there was a problem, when I looked at the ganeti logs I could only see the
message:

ganeti.errors.OpExecError: Could not pre-migrate instance sid: Failed to accept instance: Failed to start instance sid: exited with exit code 1 (kvm: -usbdevice tablet: '-usbdevice' is deprecated, please use '-device usb-...' instead

This was completely misleading, as this message is only a warning, not an
error, the real error was...

kvm: -vnc 127.0.0.1:5142: keymap include files are not supported any more

Which I just couldn't see anywhere until I looked at the kvm logs, don't
know why I didn't see it, now I see it was on Ganeti's logs as well.

Anyway, the error was caused by me having the keymap set to spanish, so what
I did was:

gnt-instance modify -H keymap= guest

for every guest, but having them change the keymap meant a reboot off all
guests.

Having done that I thought I had finished, as I had all the nodes updated to
bullseye and cleaned, the cluster is running ok and everything looks fine,
however I got hit by another bug (#993920).

Regards...