Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

[Miroslav Lachman]

Karl Denninger wrote:
> The ipmi implementation is limited to CD-sized media on the Supermicro
> ipKVM implementations.  Try the CD boot media ISO.
>
> Steven Hartland wrote:
>> I can confirm that's the same on 8.0-RELEASE DVD, you can boot from it
>> but
>> you can't start fixit as it simply doesnt appear to find the "cd". This
>> was done on a supermicro with ipmi, which I believe uses the same or
>> similar
>> controller under a different name.

Virtual Media on Supermicro 6016TT-TF TwinServer works fine for me 
(tested with memtest86+-2.01.iso 1.75MB):
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Unknown USB device: vendor 0x046b product 0xff92 bus uhub3
umass0: <American Megatrends Inc. Composite Device, class 0/0, rev 
2.00/1.00, addr 2> on uhub3
cd0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <AMI Virtual CDROM 1.00> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
cd0: 40.000MB/s transfers
cd0: cd present [898 x 2048 byte records]
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 20 0 0 0 0
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): SCSI Status: Check Condition
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): NOT READY asc:3a,0
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): Medium not present
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): Unretryable error
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 1
da0: <AMI Virtual Floppy 1.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider cd0 is iso9660/MT201.

# mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt/

# ls /mnt/
boot            readme.txt
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With the same ISO on Dell R610 I got following:
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Unknown USB device: vendor 0x0624 product 0x0249 bus uhub6
umass0: <Avocent USB Composite Device-1, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 
2> on uhub6
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data)
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Medium not present
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Unretryable error
cd0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <iDRAC Virtual CD 0323> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
cd0: 40.000MB/s transfers
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 20 0 0 0 0
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): SCSI Status: Check Condition
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): Retrying Command (per Sense Data)
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 20 0 0 0 0
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): SCSI Status: Check Condition
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): NOT READY asc:3a,0
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): Medium not present
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): Unretryable error
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 1
da0: <iDRAC Virtual Floppy 0323> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
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Medium is not detected in this virtual drive. I don't know if it is 
FreeBSD or iDRAC issue.

Virtual Media / Virtual Console from all vendors is paint in the a...

I have iLO card in HP ML110 G5 and Virtual Media doesn't work at all. 
Virtual device is not detected by FreeBSD nor in BIOS, so I can't even 
boot from it.

Virtual Media (console) on Sun Fire X2100 M2 is accessible only by IP 
address, not by its domain name (I reported it to Sun Microsystems 11 
month ago and Sun leaves it unfixed.

In Virtual Console of Supermicro, there is problem with keyboard input 
in sysinstall prior to FreeBSD 8.x

So I am disapointed by this hyped feature ;(

Miroslav Lachman