Cisco XRv 9000 interfaces not appearing

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Cisco XRv 9000 interfaces not appearing

Post by jcanat » Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:33 pm

Hello fellow EVE users !
I have a problem with my lab, I'm trying to use a cisco XRV 9000 router and while it starts and seems to work properly I can't see any interfaces from the cisco CLI apart from null0 and Mgmteth0, did anybody else have this problem and solved it?

Other kind of images work perfectly (CSR1000v, standard XRV, vIOS and IOL).

My configuration :
EVE ng 2.0.3-90 with qemu 2.4.0 on a bare-metal install of ubuntu 16.04.
Intel VT-x support is enabled.
My image is the official qcow2 image from cisco, I have tested with 2 different XRv9000 versions : 6.2.2 and 6.0.1.
I have tried changing the interfaces type as I saw it could be a problem but it never works be it using virtio-net-pci, vmxnet3 or e1000 interfaces type.

If you need other info on my setup, I'll be happy to answer.

Thank you,

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Re: Cisco XRv 9000 interfaces not appearing

Post by Uldis (UD) » Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:01 pm

this image is super heavy, give time

advice boot forst time, then stop and start node again...
BTW what CPU you have on your server??

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Re: Cisco XRv 9000 interfaces not appearing

Post by jcanat » Wed Aug 22, 2018 7:30 am

I gave it time (more than 10 minutes after gaining console access), so I'm not sure the problem lies there.

As for the CPU I'm using a server with 2 quadcores Intel Xeon E5472 @ 3.0 GHz.

Thanks for your time

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Re: Cisco XRv 9000 interfaces not appearing

Post by Uldis (UD) » Wed Aug 22, 2018 1:31 pm

Sorry but your CPU does not support EPT !!!
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)


https://ark.intel.com/products/33085/In ... 00-MHz-FSB

therefore XR9k will not work there


Ulids

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Re: Cisco XRv 9000 interfaces not appearing

Post by jcanat » Thu Aug 23, 2018 9:40 am

Ok thanks for the answer, at least I know why it doesn't work.
I'll try to see if I can upgrade the machien I'm working or use something else than the XRv9k ;)

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Re: Cisco XRv 9000 interfaces not appearing

Post by eve37 » Wed Mar 13, 2019 2:41 pm

I can confirm that (at least for bare metal installation), the Gigabit interfaces will only show up on Intel CPUs. I tried to get xrv9k 6.5.2 running on AMD Opteron server, didn't work. After installing Eve-NG bare metal on Intel Xeon, with exactly the same configuration, Gigabit interfaces showed up immediately.

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Re: Cisco XRv 9000 interfaces not appearing

Post by Uldis (UD) » Wed Mar 13, 2019 4:12 pm

Sorry but it is question to vendor now...
Intel is ok
AMD not

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