IOS XRv 9k 7.4.2 not booting in eve-ng

[IG]

Hi All, 

I am trying to boot up an IOS XRv 9k 7.4.2 in eve-ng but its not booting, it rebooted in the first 2-3 minutes and afterwards its doing nothing, i can see the following message on the console but its not progressing any further. any idea please ?

Regards,

IG

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# Welcome to the Cisco IOS XRv9k platform #
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# Please wait for Cisco IOS XR to start. #
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# Copyright (c) 2014-2019, 2021 by Cisco Systems, Inc. #
# #
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Cisco IOS XR console will start on the 1st serial port
Cisco IOS XR aux console will start on the 2nd serial port
Cisco Calvados console will start on the 3rd serial port

[JKOOP]

I would wait. This image will take a long time to boot. 

[IG]

Thanks, 

How long ? I left it there overnight and it was the same next morning. 

Regards,

IG 

[Harold Ritter]

Hi @IG ,

It could be a problem with the resources you allocated to the XRv9k. How much resources did you allocate to it? The recommended values are as follow:

Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router platform

At a very minimum, 10 GB of DRAM and 2 vCPUs are required.
It is recommended to use 16 GB and 4 vCPUs.

Regards,

[Cosmin]

It has nothing to do with the resources.....I have allocated the recommended amount and I have the same problem....

[vishal_bhugra]

Hello IG,

Were you able to solve the problem. I am having the same problem

[ccie.22939]

Hi @IG  ...

Dunno whether you have already solved this or we're facing the same problem ...
My Lab w/

1.) xrv9k-fullk9-x.vga-7.11.2.qcow2 (VGA support)
2.) EVE-CE-BOOK-6.2-2024

I modified the QEMU options w/ "-vga std" in line ...
i.e., -enable-kvm -smbios type=1,manufacturer="cisco",product="Cisco IOS XRv 9000" -machine type=pc,accel=kvm,usb=off -serial mon:stdio -nographic -no-user-config -nodefaults -vga std -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard -no-hpet -realtime mlock=off -no-shutdown -boot order=c -serial null -serial null -serial null -cpu host

and the system boots up successfully w/ VNC console ......

## it's weird that no document mentioned this.

Hope that helpful

Br,

Shawn WANG

[ranjeetba@techmahindra.com]

Where to put these lines ?I am running on platform eve-ng 

[ccie.22939]

[IG]

Hi All, 

sorry for not responding on this, I dont remember exactly what I did, but i am running 7.2.1 in the LAB currently, so i believe i changed the image version and used more stable one. 

I will spin up the LAB later and will confirm.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

IG

[IG]

Hi Guys, 

yes just confirmed its working with this version:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ios#show version
Mon Dec 2 11:46:37.985 UTC
Cisco IOS XR Software, Version 7.2.1
Copyright (c) 2013-2020 by Cisco Systems, Inc.

with following settings:

-enable-kvm -smbios type=1,manufacturer="cisco",product="Cisco IOS XRv 9000" -machine type=pc,accel=kvm,usb=off -serial mon:stdio -nographic -no-user-config -nodefaults -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard -no-hpet -realtime mlock=off -no-shutdown -boot order=c -serial null -serial null -serial null -cpu host

hope this helps.

Regards,

IG