XCAT_2.14.6_Release_Notes - xcat2/xcat-core GitHub Wiki

A new Docker image has been published for xCAT 2.14.6.

# docker pull xcat/xcat2:latest

Please refer to Quick Start for the details.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xcat2/xcat-core/master/xCAT-server/share/xcat/tools/go-xcat -O - >/tmp/go-xcat

chmod +x /tmp/go-xcat

/tmp/go-xcat \
  --xcat-core=https://xcat.org/files/xcat/xcat-core/2.14.x_Linux/xcat-core/xcat-core-2.14.6-linux.tar.bz2 \
  --xcat-dep=https://xcat.org/files/xcat/xcat-dep/2.x_Linux/beta/xcat-dep-rhel8.tar.bz2 \
  install

Notes:

• RHEL 8.0.0 GA is supported.

• If deploy RHEL 8 compute nodes is intended after migrate from a previous xCAT installation, manually run chdef -t site xcatsslversion= after xCAT migration. Otherwise, problems will be hit when deploy RHEL 8 compute node. #5794 #5798 #6061 #6090 And this kind of migration is supported on RHEL 7 ONLY. #577

• There is no plan to support xCAT Software Kits function on RHEL 8.

• Limit support for confignetwork, the follow function are not included:

  • extra params support
  • configure hostname other than default nodename
  • configib support
  • enhance multiple IP support for installation NIC
  • Linux bridge configuration enhancement #6299 #6302

• To use xcat-openbmc-py3 on RH8, please reference the steps deploy xcat-openbmc-py3 on RH8 for more information.

xCAT documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs: http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/

• xcat-core

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.14.6-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.14.6-ubuntu.tar.bz2

• xcat-dep

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.14.6-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.14.6-ubuntu.tar.bz2

Issue #6146 Linux kdump not working on RHEL 8 diskless compute node

Issue #6145 makegocons throw out confused message "Failed to execute command: systemctl disable conserver." even there is no conserver.service alive ahead in rhels8.0

Issue #6118 otherpkgdir won't work with localdir and http repo

Issue #6108 Any method to sync normal user accounts from manage node to compute nodes?

Issue #6089 rh8 node provision failed when site.xcatsslversion is TLSv1 and upgrade xCAT to latest rhels8 build

Issue #6069 genimage for redhat8 diskless complains "Detection of Platform Module failed: Cannot open file <..>/os-release"

Issue #6068 [RH8]copycds do not report error when disk is full in MN

Issue #6049 copycds <cumulus linux iso> modifies the permissions of source bin file

Issue #6035 DB performance: lsdef will query all tables even specify attribute to query

Issue #6028 configeth does not reload new ifcfg-* for installnic when diskless reboot

Issue #6022 [RH8] RHEL 8 does not support LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 adapter any more

Issue #6015 xcat on Centos 7.6.1810 - all compute nodes hang overnight

Issue #6014 xcat on Centos 7.6.1810 - how to set the latest kernel to run on compute nodes

Issue #5987 xdcp EXECUTE of .post script not working as expected

Issue #5966 nodeset calculate wrong path for deploying sles when using "copycds -p"

Issue #5958 makedns does not support "forward only" option

Issue #5938 After provisioning or after some idle time... updatenode takes very long time on first attempt on AC922

Issue #5905 makedhcp -n cannot generate right URL in dhcpd.conf file

Issue #5888 synclist: EXECUTEALWAYS error when another line in the synclist references the same destination node

Issue #5887 "genimage ubuntu18.04.1-x86_64-netboot-compute" generates broken image

Issue #5873 Section %packages does not end with %end error in diskful service node install

Issue #5869 Function "httpport" can not work on ubuntu + netboot=grub2 scenario

Issue #5862 httpport attribute can not work well in ubuntu diskless

Issue #5856 The output of some hardware control command are not same between perl and python

Issue #5241 [FVT]:lsdef -t osimage -z could not gives out all osimage's definition stanza

Issue #5121 rspconfig failed to set bmc ip etc in some specific condition

Issue #3513 For the latest xCAT-genesis-base, the mlx4_en driver 2.2-1 (Feb 2014) is included, it can not support Mellanox Ethernet NIC that need driver newer than 2.2-1, for more information, please reference build genesis locally with latest RH MN

Issue #5057 This issue cannot be reproduced, and the work around is : check the bmc state use rflash <node> -l, if the target firmware state is Active(+), execute rpower <node> boot to reboot the host and let new firmware take effect.

Issue #3284 While selinux on KVM host was reconfigured from enforcing to disabled, rpower failed to power previous created KVM guest on