# Multi instances

**URL:** <https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 31, 2018, 9:54am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654 "2018-01-31T09:54:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![fbordini](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/fbordini/32/5586_2.png) [@fbordini](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/fbordini)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 9:54am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/1 "2018-01-31T09:54:01Z")

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Hi,  
I am a newbie OpenNebula user and I have a problem…  
I just finished installing the opennebula system with only one kvm virtualization host (centos 6.9 final) and I tried to run multi istances of ttylinux-kvm images but only the first start regularly the others remain in Pending status. Then I tried to run ttylinux-kvm and Ubuntu 16.04 - LXD together but again only the first runs… the second stay pending.  
where is the error?  
thank you all

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**Author:** ![jmdelafe](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/jmdelafe/32/5057_2.png) [@jmdelafe](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/jmdelafe)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/2 "2018-01-31T20:40:10Z")

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@fbordini, you need to install [LXDoNe addon](https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-lxdone) in order to manage LXD containers on OpenNebula. **Ubuntu 16.04 - LXD** is an LXD container image.  
OpenNebula doesn’t support multi instances nodes by default. As a workaround, you can follow the guides to prepare the same node to run KVM virtual machines and LXD containers and add it to OpenNebula twice (as a KVM node and as an LXD node). This way you can deploy KVM VMs and LXD containers on the same node 😉

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**Author:** ![fbordini](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/fbordini/32/5586_2.png) [@fbordini](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/fbordini)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 8:38am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/3 "2018-02-01T08:38:23Z")

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thanks, for information but with more instances of ttylinux only the first start normanly, the others stay panding. is it the same problem?

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**Author:** ![juanmont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@juanmont](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/juanmont)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/4 "2018-02-01T15:34:53Z")

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Hi!

Can you put here the sched.log file (/var/log/one/sched.log)?

Regards!  
Juan Jose

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**Author:** ![fbordini](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/fbordini/32/5586_2.png) [@fbordini](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/fbordini)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/5 "2018-02-01T15:50:24Z")

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sorry, but new users can not upload files…  
Can I insert log in the answer?

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**Author:** ![atodorov\_storpool](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/atodorov_storpool/32/5327_2.png) [@atodorov\_storpool](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/atodorov_storpool)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/6 "2018-02-01T16:36:21Z")

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Hi,

A link to pastebin or similar service should be ok too.

BR,  
Anton Todorov

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**Author:** ![fbordini](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/fbordini/32/5586_2.png) [@fbordini](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/fbordini)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/7 "2018-02-02T09:49:56Z")

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Hi,  
this is the link with the last output log…  
[https://pastebin.com/GisjCXcZ](https://pastebin.com/GisjCXcZ)  
I don’t understand ‘there is no suitable host’ I have made two hosts but only can run KVM virtual machines.  
Both instances must runs in same hosts…

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**Author:** ![dclavijo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/dclavijo/32/5265_2.png) [@dclavijo](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/dclavijo)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/8 "2018-02-02T14:24:00Z")

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I’ve never seen that in the logs

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**Author:** ![jmdelafe](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/jmdelafe/32/5057_2.png) [@jmdelafe](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/jmdelafe)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/9 "2018-02-02T16:44:37Z")

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Have you tried to instantiate it manually? There’s no much info on the sched.log more than the scheduler couldn’t find a host that matches the criteria to deploy VMs 🙁

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**Author:** ![fbordini](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/fbordini/32/5586_2.png) [@fbordini](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/fbordini)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/10 "2018-02-02T17:14:53Z")

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I have not tried manually, but I have installed a new host node and I have instanced a second VM. It works … but I must create N identical VMs in a same node and now it does not work. The next week I will try manually … I keep you updated.  
Bye

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**Author:** ![fbordini](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/fbordini/32/5586_2.png) [@fbordini](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/fbordini)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/11 "2018-02-05T12:19:04Z")

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Hi,  
I’ll try to execute manually three VMs and the result is …

# onetemplate instantiate 1

VM ID: 51

# onetemplate instantiate 1

VM ID: 52

# onetemplate instantiate 1

VM ID: 53

# onevm list

```
ID USER GROUP NAME STAT UCPU UMEM HOST TIME
51 oneadmin oneadmin ttylinux - kvm- unkn 0 0K NebulaKVM 0d 00h01
52 oneadmin oneadmin ttylinux - kvm- unkn 0 0K HostMaster 0d 00h01
53 oneadmin oneadmin ttylinux - kvm- pend 0 0K 0d 00h00

```

the last instances does not start…

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**Author:** ![juanmont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@juanmont](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/juanmont)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/12 "2018-02-05T14:16:50Z")

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Hi!

Can you put the output of the `onehost list` command?

The scheduler can not find any active Host.

Regards!

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**Author:** ![fbordini](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/fbordini/32/5586_2.png) [@fbordini](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/fbordini)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/13 "2018-02-05T14:51:37Z")

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ID NAME CLUSTER RVM ALLOCATED\_CPU ALLOCATED\_MEM STAT  
5 HostMasterFews default 0 0 / 800 (0%) 0K / 15.6G (0%) on  
7 NebulaKVM default 1 10 / 800 (1%) 1024M / 15.7G (6%) on

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**Author:** ![fbordini](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/fbordini/32/5586_2.png) [@fbordini](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/fbordini)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/14 "2018-02-05T15:08:11Z")

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Now I have the following error in both nodes …

Mon Feb 5 16:05:31 2018 : Error monitoring Host HostMasterFews (5): …/…/vmm/kvm/poll:228:in `round': wrong number of arguments (1 for 0) (ArgumentError) from ../../vmm/kvm/poll:228:in`get\_cpu\_info’  
from …/…/vmm/kvm/poll:226:in `each' from ../../vmm/kvm/poll:226:in`get\_cpu\_info’  
from …/…/vmm/kvm/poll:132:in `get_all_vm_info' from ../../vmm/kvm/../lib/poll_common.rb:99:in`print\_all\_vm\_template’  
from …/…/vmm/kvm/poll:531  
ERROR MESSAGE --8\<------  
Error executing [poll.sh](http://poll.sh)  
ERROR MESSAGE ------\>8–  
ARCH=x86\_64  
MODELNAME="Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8212"  
HYPERVISOR=kvm  
TOTALCPU=800  
CPUSPEED=2009  
TOTALMEMORY=16332156  
USEDMEMORY=397388  
FREEMEMORY=15934768  
FREECPU=800  
USEDCPU=0  
NETRX=30804822916  
NETTX=778280921  
DS\_LOCATION\_USED\_MB=5943  
DS\_LOCATION\_TOTAL\_MB=50269  
DS\_LOCATION\_FREE\_MB=41767  
DS = [  
ID = 0,  
USED\_MB = 5943,  
TOTAL\_MB = 50269,  
FREE\_MB = 41767  
]  
VM=[ID=56,POLL="DISK\_SIZE=[ID=0,SIZE=27] DISK\_SIZE=[ID=1,SIZE=1] "]  
HOSTNAME=HostMasterFews

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**Author:** ![fbordini](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/fbordini/32/5586_2.png) [@fbordini](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/fbordini)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/15 "2018-02-05T15:09:10Z")

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… but the instances work fine…

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**Author:** ![fbordini](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/fbordini/32/5586_2.png) [@fbordini](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/fbordini)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/16 "2018-02-06T15:09:37Z")

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I have create a my VM image … but on the same host the second one remains pending and the host status return the error above…I do not know what to do …😥

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**Author:** ![dclavijo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/dclavijo/32/5265_2.png) [@dclavijo](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/dclavijo)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/17 "2018-02-06T16:59:45Z")

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Have you followed the [LXDoNe setup guide](https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-lxdone/blob/master/Setup.md) step by step?

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**Author:** ![fbordini](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/fbordini/32/5586_2.png) [@fbordini](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/fbordini)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/18 "2018-02-06T19:22:51Z")

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Sorry but I do not understand … why do I have to install LXDoNe feature? I followed the main setup guide.  
🤔

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**Author:** ![dclavijo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/dclavijo/32/5265_2.png) [@dclavijo](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/dclavijo)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/19 "2018-02-06T19:24:32Z")

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LXDoNe is an addon, its not provided by default by OpenNEbula. If you want OpenNebula to manage LXD containers then yo have to install the addon.

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**Author:** ![fbordini](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/fbordini/32/5586_2.png) [@fbordini](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/fbordini)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/multi-instances/5654/20 "2018-02-06T19:36:10Z")

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But also a personal Image made by iso needs of the the lxd addon?

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