Unable to activate BIG-IP license for VE deployed on Ubuntu KVM hypervisor

[mattgreene]

Agent Version

2.0.1

Operating System

Ubuntu 14.04

OpenStack Release

Liberty

Description

The hypervisor presents a BIOS string that is incompatible with the F5 license server.

Deployment

OpenStack compute node running Ubuntu with a KVM hypervisor.

Workaround

Change /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py to include the lines in bold below and restart nova-compute:

def _configure_guest_by_virt_type(self, guest, virt_type, caps, instance,
                                  image_meta, flavor, root_device_name):
    if virt_type == "xen":
        if guest.os_type == vm_mode.HVM:
            guest.os_loader = CONF.libvirt.xen_hvmloader_path
    elif virt_type in ("kvm", "qemu"):
        if caps.host.cpu.arch in (arch.I686, arch.X86_64):
            guest.sysinfo = self._get_guest_config_sysinfo(instance)
            guest.os_smbios = vconfig.LibvirtConfigGuestSMBIOS()
            guest.sysinfo.bios_vendor = "SeaBIOS"
            guest.sysinfo.bios_version = "foo"

[gitrick22]

This issue has been resolved on the F5 licensing server.