I'm trying to get VM Import for VMWare working following the doc at https://docs.harvesterhci.io/v1.1/advanced/vmimport/ but I get this after setting up the source

harvester-management:/home/rancher # kubectl get vmwaresource.migration
NAME    STATUS
vcsim   clusterNotReady

Hello, my cluster has only two nodes named harv04 and harv05, it will fail when uploading image with large qcow2 file (greater than 50GB), the error message is "Pod spec node ID harv05 doesn't match the desired node ID harv04". How can I reslove this?

Hello, my cluster has only two nodes named harv04 and harv05, it will fail when uploading image with large qcow2 file (greater than 50GB), the error message is "Pod spec node ID harv05 doesn't match the desired node ID harv04". How can I resolve this?

ASK HW INFO: -Xeon with 500GB SSD 64GB RAM GOAL: 1. simulate vm motion between node 2. simulate trunk port without lacp. separate vm vlan and storage vlan STEPS: 1. install parent harvester 2. since I only have 1 server. create 3 harvester vms as child vm

k keep having issues w/ my cluster totally freaking out, vms locking up, and all of my replicas going nuts... i just took a support bundle after it happened, can someone take a look and lmk where to flippin start, it's driving me nuts! i dont know if it's a node, i dont know if it's a switch, i'm totally at a loss here.

ASK https://www.docker.com/pricing there it said Docker Desktop Business must paid $24/user/month but it didn't said Docker Server ? 1. so do I need to pay for Docker Server Business

ASK HW INFO: 3x Servers with Alpine Linux+Kubernetes Cluster+Podman 1x PC with Ubuntu LTS 22.10+Rancher+Docker I read somewhere Rancher need Docker If Docker Server Business must paid and I want to save budget ? 1. Can I use podman in K8 cluster and not using Docker at all but using Docker only for Rancher PC

Having a bit of an issue with a cluster/ storage network not coming up properly after rebooting a node here;

[   76.204319] A link change request failed with some changes committed already. Interface vm-br may have been left with an inconsistent configuration, please check.

controller:
time="2023-03-10T20:03:15Z" level=error msg="error syncing 'har-04': handler harvester-network-vlanconfig-controller: set up VLAN failed, vlanconfig: har-04, node: har-04, error: ensure bridge vm-br failed, error: set vlan filtering failed, error: invalid argument, iface: &{0xc0006de140}, requeuing"
I0310 20:03:15.252249       1 controller.go:75] vlan config har-04 has been changed, spec: {Description: ClusterNetwork:vm NodeSelector:map[<http://kubernetes.io/hostname:har-04|kubernetes.io/hostname:har-04>] Uplink:{NICs:[eno1 eno2] LinkAttrs:0xc001c85e30 BondOptions:0xc00052ad50}}

The associated bond is brought up just fine, any ideas what could be causing such a scenario?

anyone know of a way to map COM-1 serial port from the host to a vm? i cant seem to find it in PCI Devices

Howdy all! New Harvester user here (just a HomeLab, nothing huge). Just wanted to say hi…. super excited to test this beast out! Wondering if anyone has some “unofficial” harvester related docs or writeups you’d offer as quality material? I’m pretty comfortable in K8s and various cloud providers but haven’t self hosted beyond Rancher Desktop for local dev and my little k3d box over in the corner. Ideally my hope is to manage this whole setup in Terraform/packer/kubernetes native deployment tools, but right now i’m just figuring out the basic stuff - like where do i dig up schema on a harvester config file… Scratch that just found it Any Harvester newb suggestions welcome. I’m all ears!

anyone know how i can manually start a VM? my ui is not wanting to load.

also, how to reboot the ui! 🙂

How to boot a Ubuntu vm into single user mode via harvester UI vm console shortcut key? Assuming such VM could not be logged into via all means, and need to be able to boot into single user mode to update

ubuntu

user password, and allow console login..

Are there other supported options for VM backups (like Veeam) with Harvester or we only have NFS and S3 option? https://docs.harvesterhci.io/v1.1/vm/backup-restore Above doc shows "Available as of v0.3.0"... so just wondering if there are more options now in 1.1?

hello, I am trying to rename a network interface in harvester, does anyone know of a best practice/documented method for doing so?

Hello! Is it possible to turn off the monitoring to save on resources? Before I do that though if I can, should the cluster be writing 2.5MB/s to disk constantly when idle with no vms?

can someone provide the steps to add Harvester CSI to a custom rancher cluster? looks like the helm chart is looking for cloud-config folder, and there should be a file cloud-provider-config in that folder. how can i generate that file? i know it's all done automatically if you create a cluster in rancher w/ harvester as a cloud provider, but i'm doing a custom cluster so i can add windows nodes.

Hello, During installation of the first Harvester node, came across this issue (screenshot) Any idea why this happens ?

Hello, after (somehow) I managed to make harvester start, I see this issue

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Can someone advise on this ?

shouldn’t this be public image ? Pull if also failing for me locally

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Anyone seen this issue ?

Normal   Pulling                 39m (x2 over 40m)     kubelet            Pulling image "rancher/harvester-cluster-repo:v1.1.1"

Normal   BackOff                 39m (x3 over 40m)     kubelet            Back-off pulling image "rancher/harvester-cluster-repo:v1.1.1"

Warning  Failed                  39m (x3 over 40m)     kubelet            Error: ImagePullBackOff

Normal   Pulling                 37m (x4 over 39m)     kubelet            Pulling image "rancher/harvester-cluster-repo:v1.1.1"

Warning  Failed                  37m (x4 over 39m)     kubelet            Failed to pull image "rancher/harvester-cluster-repo:v1.1.1": rpc error: code = Unknown desc = failed to pull and unpack image "<http://docker.io/rancher/harvester-cluster-repo:v1.1.1|docker.io/rancher/harvester-cluster-repo:v1.1.1>": failed to resolve reference "<http://docker.io/rancher/harvester-cluster-repo:v1.1.1|docker.io/rancher/harvester-cluster-repo:v1.1.1>": pull access denied, repository does not exist or may require authorization: server message: insufficient_scope: authorization failed

Warning  Failed                  37m (x4 over 39m)     kubelet            Error: ErrImagePull

Warning  Failed                  37m (x6 over 38m)     kubelet            Error: ImagePullBackOff

Normal   BackOff                 4m6s (x154 over 38m)  kubelet            Back-off pulling image "rancher/harvester-cluster-repo:v1.1.1"

Hello, I registered Harvester into Rancher but not able to configure a network, in order to select it when creating node template. Can someone advise on that ?

I created vm network and was able to select it in the node template. However I’m facing this issue: I’m creating a new cluster, (1 master 1 worker) and selecting the corresponding node templates Then I see the cluster provisioning, 2 new vms are created, and they are in running state. However they never complete and register to the cluster… the cluster hangs in “Provisioning” I then noticed that the Storage of the vms is in “degraded” state. Any Advise on that ?

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I'm making good progress toward adopting Harvester. Now I'm assessing the basic capabilities by creating a single-node K3s cluster through Rancher Server UI. I am stuck trying to diagnose a pending state. Can you direct me to find the cause? Cluster status:

waiting for viable init node

Conditions log:

[Disconnected] Cluster agent is not connected

How does IPAM inside harvester work? If not depending on DHCP for VM IP assignment?