Marketcetera VMWare Appliance 0.4.2

[Panos Nikoulis]

I am trying to run the appliance in VMware Player and I am just getting the "Starting Up..." message for a fraction of a second, then it seems to crash and displays a set of error codes on the last two lines of the screen.  I am running VMware with 512 MB of memory.  The last few lines of the vmware.log file are:

Feb 11 19:35:49.551: vcpu-0| Msg_Hint: msg.monitorevent.halt (sent)
Feb 11 19:35:49.551: vcpu-0| The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. You will need to power off or reset the virtual machine at this point.
Feb 11 19:35:49.551: vcpu-0|
Feb 11 19:35:49.551: vcpu-0| ---------------------------------------
Feb 11 19:45:44.516: vmx| TOOLS setting the tools version to '0'

Would it be related to the Windows security settings maybe (I am running XP Pro).  What else could I be doing wrong?

[toli]

Hi Panos,

Can you give me more details about your setup?

Which OS are you running? If Windows, is it XP or Vista?
Are you running the appliance in VMWare Player or Workstation?

Can you take a screnshot of the error and send it to us? On Windows,
you can just press Ctrl-PrintScrn (usually above PageUp button), and
then you can paste that into Microsoft Paint (Start -> Accessories -->
Paint): http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/print-screen/

If you can capture the text output from VMWare that shows the errors
that would be great too, but a screenshot will be enough to get us
started.

Thanks.

On 2/11/08, Panos Nikoulis <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> I am trying to run the appliance in VMware Player and I am just getting the
> "Starting Up..." message for a fraction of a second, then it seems to crash
> and displays a set of error codes on the last two lines of the screen.  What
> could I be doing wrong?
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[toli]

Panos,

We've successfully been able to run 0.4.2 on an XP machine, but we are
testing this on a fresh XP machine again.

I assume you've tried going to the VMWare Player menu and doing a
"Reset" or something that would cause a complete reboot of the
appliance (instead of hibernating it, which is the default)?

And the directory where the appliance lives is writable, correct?What
do you mean when you say "Windows Security Settings"? I'm not aware of
VMWare having any "special needs" with regards to Windows Security
settings.

I'll let you know if we can reproduce the problem.

On 2/11/08, Panos Nikoulis <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Attached is a bmp file showing what the VMware window looks like.
>
> I am running VMware with 512 MB of memory.  The last few lines of the
> vmware.log file are:
>
> Feb 11 19:35:49.551: vcpu-0| Msg_Hint: msg.monitorevent.halt (sent)
> Feb 11 19:35:49.551: vcpu-0| The CPU has been disabled by the guest
> operating system. You will need to power off or reset the virtual machine at
> this point.
> Feb 11 19:35:49.551: vcpu-0|
> Feb 11 19:35:49.551: vcpu-0|
> ---------------------------------------
> Feb 11 19:45:44.516: vmx| TOOLS setting the tools version to '0'
>
> Would it be related to the Windows security settings maybe (I am running XP
> Pro)?
>
> Panos Nikoulis
> [phone]
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Toli Kuznets <[hidden email]>
> To: Panos Nikoulis <[hidden email]>
> Cc: [hidden email]
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 7:48:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [m-etc-users] Marketcetera VMWare Appliance 0.4.2
>
>  Hi Panos,
>
> Can you give me more details about your setup?
>
> Which OS are you running? If Windows, is it XP or Vista?
> Are you running the appliance in VMWare Player or Workstation?
>
> Can you take a screnshot of the error and send it to us? On Windows,
> you can just press Ctrl-PrintScrn (usually above PageUp button), and
> then you can paste that into Microsoft Paint (Start -> Accessories -->
> Paint): http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/print-screen/
>
> If you can capture the text output from VMWare that shows the errors
> that would be great too, but a screenshot will be enough to get us
> started.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On 2/11/08, Panos Nikoulis <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to run the appliance in VMware Player and I am just getting
> the
> > "Starting Up..." message for a fraction of a second, then it seems to
> crash
> > and displays a set of error codes on the last two lines of the screen.
> What
> > could I be doing wrong?
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> Toli Kuznets
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> download.run.trade.
>
>
>

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[toli]

Panos,

Can you give me more details about the physical machine you are using?
And the version of VMWare Player?

It seems that the problem may be with the motherboard incompatibility
between Ubuntu and VIA EPIA chipsets:
http://communities.vmware.com/message/630319
"This is because the 2.6.17-10-server kernel is compiled with
HIGHMEM64G support, which requires PAE, but the Via C3 processor used
on most Epias does not support PAE. You will have to use a kernel
without HIGHMEM64G support (HIGHMEM4G will work, as will NOHIGHMEM).

We are actually using a later (2.16.20-15-server) version of the
kernel, but i wonder if it's the same issue.


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[Panos Nikoulis]

Toli, here is my system info.  The machine is an IBM ThinkPad T42p (with discrete graphics):

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name IBM-B4DD0078260
System Manufacturer IBM
System Model 2373Y3B
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 13 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel ~1993 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date IBM 1RETDGWW (3.12 ), 10/18/2004
SMBIOS Version 2.33
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name IBM-B4DD0078260\Panos
Time Zone Eastern Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 435.68 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 2.40 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Name ATI MOBILITY FIRE GL T2
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4E54&SUBSYS_054F1014&REV_80\4&1BFA44D4&0&0008
Adapter Type MOBILITY FIRE GL T2 AGP (0x4E54), ATI Technologies Inc. compatible
Adapter Description ATI MOBILITY FIRE GL T2
Adapter RAM 128.00 MB (134,217,728 bytes)
Installed Drivers ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version 6.14.10.6476
INF File oem11.inf (ati2mtag_M10GL section)
Color Planes 1
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1600 x 1200 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xE0000000-0xE7FFFFFF
I/O Port 0x00003000-0x00003FFF
Memory Address 0xC0100000-0xC01FFFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 11
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\ati2mtag.sys (6.14.10.6476, 769.00 KB (787,456 bytes), 1/18/2008 9:57 PM)

I thought the problem might be related to the Windows security system, but I really have no idea.  You are probably right that it has something to do with running Ubuntu on certain chipsets.  Any way around it?

Thanks!

toli wrote:

Hi Panos,

Can you give me more details about your setup?

Which OS are you running? If Windows, is it XP or Vista?
Are you running the appliance in VMWare Player or Workstation?

Can you take a screnshot of the error and send it to us? On Windows,
you can just press Ctrl-PrintScrn (usually above PageUp button), and
then you can paste that into Microsoft Paint (Start -> Accessories -->
Paint): http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/print-screen/

If you can capture the text output from VMWare that shows the errors
that would be great too, but a screenshot will be enough to get us
started.

Thanks.

On 2/11/08, Panos Nikoulis <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> I am trying to run the appliance in VMware Player and I am just getting the
> "Starting Up..." message for a fraction of a second, then it seems to crash
> and displays a set of error codes on the last two lines of the screen.  What
> could I be doing wrong?
> --
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[toli]

Panos,

I checked with some friends working at VMWare, and so far the answers
coming back are that it really may be a hardware problem between the
version of Ubuntu kernel we are using on the appliance and your
laptop.

Do you have any other machine that you can try running the appliance
on? We've had great success running it on generic Dell boxes, for
example, and I've never seen reports of the kernel panics like yours
yet.

If you have time/desire you can try what VMWare people suggested
below, but I think finding a different machine may be easier.

"One thing you could try is booting an Ubuntu CD of the same version
(their installer CD boots the entire OS, so you could just boot from
that as a test without actually installing anything) on that same T62,
without VMware, and see if it works.  If it doesn't, there's not
really anything we could do.  If it does, that hints there is
something we could do."

I'll let you know if i hear anything different from a few of my other
contacts at VMWare.

thanks

On 2/11/08, Panos Nikoulis <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Toli, here is my system info.  The machine is an IBM ThinkPad T42p (with
> discrete graphics):
>

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[Panos Nikoulis]

Some javascript/style in this post has been disabled (why?)

Toli, I tried it on an old Dell Latitude C400 and it works perfectly fine (albeit very slow).  How do I then place orders inside the appliance?  Does it connect to Interactive Brokers or any other (non-FIX) systems?  My next step would be to install all the pieces locally and have Photon as the front end.  Looks like a great system, keep up the good work!

 

Panos Nikoulis
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From: Toli Kuznets <[hidden email]>
To: Panos Nikoulis <[hidden email]>
Cc: [hidden email]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 2:07:07 PM
Subject: Re: [m-etc-users] Marketcetera VMWare Appliance 0.4.2

Panos,

I checked with some friends working at VMWare, and so far the answers
coming back are that it really may be a hardware problem between the
version of Ubuntu kernel we are using on the appliance and your
laptop.

Do you have any other machine that you can try running the appliance
on? We've had great success running it on generic Dell boxes, for
example, and I've never seen reports of the kernel panics like yours
yet.

If you have time/desire you can try what VMWare people suggested
below, but I think finding a different machine may be easier.

"One thing you could try is booting an Ubuntu CD of the same version
(their installer CD boots the entire OS, so you could just boot from
that as a test without actually installing anything) on that same T62,
without VMware, and see if it works.  If it doesn't, there's not
really anything we could do.  If it does, that hints there is
something we could do."

I'll let you know if i hear anything different from a few of my other
contacts at VMWare.

thanks

On 2/11/08, Panos Nikoulis <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Toli, here is my system info.  The machine is an IBM ThinkPad T42p (with
> discrete graphics):
>

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[toli]

Panos,

Glad you got the Appliance working.

> (albeit very slow).  How do I then place orders inside the appliance?  Does

You can place the orders via Photon (the order-entry GUI,
http://trac.marketcetera.org/trac.fcgi/wiki/Marketcetera/Photon )
which you can run on any machine, you just need to specify the IP
address of your appliance in the preferences.

> it connect to Interactive Brokers or any other (non-FIX) systems?  My next
Unfortunately, we don't connect to IB or anything non-FIX. Currently
Marketcetera only works with brokers providing a FIX gateway.

By default the OMS on the Appliance connects to the Marketcetera
exchange simulator (make sure to specify your senderCompID you get
when registered,
http://trac.marketcetera.org/trac.fcgi/wiki/Marketcetera/Appliance#ApplianceConfiguration
).

> step would be to install all the pieces locally and have Photon as the front
> end.  Looks like a great system, keep up the good work!
You should be able to run the OMS on your initial T62 laptop.
Unfortunately, the Tradebase can't run on Windows yet (problems with
Ruby/quickfix bindings).

Let me know if you run into any issues during your setup.

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