Why virtual machine fails to start when it was created from compute exclusive (CX) instance type?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • While creating VM using CX series instance type, VM startup fails with either of the following error:
Events:
  Type     Reason            Age                   From               Message
  ----     ------            ----                  ----               -------
  Warning  FailedScheduling  5m36s (x41 over 77m)  default-scheduler  0/4 nodes are available: 1 Insufficient hugepages-2Mi, 3 node(s) didn't match Pod's node affinity/selector. preemption: 0/4 nodes are available: 1 No preemption victims found for incoming pod, 3 Preemption is not helpful for scheduling..
Unknown    Warning  FailedScheduling              Pod/virt-launcher-test-xxxx                        0/1 nodes are available: 1 node(s) didn't match pod anti-affinity rules. preemption: 0/1 nodes are available: 1 No preemption victims found for incoming pod.

Environment

  • OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.
  • OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.
  • OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.
  • OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.

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