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First I have to thank all maintainers for their work. I ran this server for 1.5 years before something broke. Since armbian is maintained by volunteers I want to cheer you up and thank you for your hard work. However just today my little server would die after apt-update/upgrade. I use a SATA drive together with a boot SD-card (only containing /boot). I can observe the following behavior: The system leds indicate that booting is sucessful (blue LED does blink regularly, I can detect HDD usage by observing the green LED), yet SSH login that I have been using for years no
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KVM on Odroid HC-1
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KVM on Odroid HC-1
jcorbet replied to jcorbet's topic in Common issues / peer to peer technical support
So, now I compiled the kernel with the script and also managed to install the .deb packages. Then I checked for kvm support via dmesg | grep but found none. Ultimately I chose to delete all dtb files in the dtb-latest folder under /boot but the one tagged xu4-kvm, but this resulted in the machine failing to start. Luckily I have made a backup so I could go back. However I have no clue what goes wrong and even more important I do not know how to find out. What should I be looking for? Edit: I have got the machine running again. It was me having set (correctly at the time -
KVM on Odroid HC-1
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Hi. I am now at looking around and modifying things. Oh man - there is so much to decide. Can I safely make appropiate decisions or should I only make the slightest modification possible solving the problem? Any way: I have found virtualization support, but I have not actually found KVM. I diffed the two configs of hardkernel to look for the options. Yet I do not seem to have every option that they tick. Have a look: https://www.diffchecker.com/y8uJifYA (right at the end is the most juicy stuff regarding KVM) What does this mean? -
KVM on Odroid HC-1
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Thank you for your answer. Can you explain to me how to exactly configure the kernel for KVM? I can for sure setup the buldenvironment and stuff .. but then I am a bit clueless what to do? What do I have to adjust? And where do I find the data? And when the process runs how do I update my existing installation with the new stuff? Is there some general guide on compiling ARMbian with KVM? -
Hi forum, I want to try out KVM virtualization since I found out that Odroid HC-1 (=Odroid XU4) does in fact support hardware virtualization and should therefore have a good performance. (Is this true, has someone already done this and can confirm?) In the past I have worked with other virtualization software but this would be my first time to use kvm. Not long ago I started a server projet which works very very well and serves all my needs. The little board is so efficient indeed that I got more than 1GB of unused RAM and also a lot of unused performance. T
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Problems with Resizing
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OK. Then I will complete my installation and set it up as a productive system. I am not so sure about how to backup this. But I am sure I will come up with a solution. Maybe I will just create an installation script and backup the content. When reading your bash scripts I feel like I really should learn it. Best to you both and the rest of the team -
Problems with Resizing
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Okay. Can I help in any way? What commands shall I run/what outputs shall I generate? As I own the hardware maybe I can give back by providing information/testing software Found this when googling: https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot/tree/odroidxu4-v2017.05 (XU4 is the "same" hardware as HC-1) However I just started out with SBCs so I am really not knowledgeable ^^. -
Problems with Resizing
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Thank you. Really. And everyone who contributes to this software obviously -
Problems with Resizing
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Ok. I see. So what one ought to do is disable resizing (systemctl disable armbian-resize-filesystem on first boot) in order to maximize spare SD size for the controller to be able to survive. Then you clone it to SSD with armbian-config. Then you have everything deleted but /boot. Then you enjoy SSD speed and surviving SD with enough space for kernel update. Correct way of doing this in the future? -
Problems with Resizing
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Ok. Have tried it. Error message also gone. Shoudl hopefully work now. Thank you for the clarification PS: Since SD is small - will I have problems with kernelupdates in the future? I plan to use the serverfor ~4-5 years. Can I manually erase the old rootfs files after the transfer? Or is this done automatically and everything is OK? Sorry, for all the confusion I might be causing. When editing the fstab I noticed that only /boot is mounted. So I can erase everything else from /media/mmcboot, right? -
Problems with Resizing
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I will start to list all the commands I have tried to resolve the problem here: systemctl start armbian-resize-filesystem (run as root) - no visible output, does not seem to change anything /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-resize-filesystem - ran the script there with the parameter start. Did not work either. I am now reading the comments in the script to understand what it does and what my options are :). Any help however at this point would be very appreciated since I think it might be a problem with the software and not with my install alone. Maybe we can fix it togethe -
Problems with Resizing
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Hi, can someone point me towards the next best thing to try out? I would really like to advance my understanding of this problem If you need more data I can run every test that you like. Best Julian -
Problems with Resizing
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New Upload Hi, I hope this helps. I am very irritated that it displays January 19th as logdate. What I have done to obtain it is use armbian-config and then System/3rd Party -Diagnostics. Best Julian -
Hi community, I am a newbie when it comes to SBCs and Armbian, but I will do my best to thoroughly explain the problem. Problem: Armbian (Ubuntu 18.04 based, release for HC-1) Despite me rebooting a zillion times, resizing does not happen/finish/...: Error message (displayed exactly like this): Warning: a reboot is needed to finish resizing the filesystem Please reboot the system as soon as possible ilesystem Please reboot the system as soon as possible Hardware: SBC: Odroid HC-1 2GB RAM (known work