Why virtual machine fails to start when it was created from compute exclusive (CX) instance type?
Issue
- While creating VM using CX series instance type, VM startup fails with either of the following error:
Events:
Type Reason Age From Message
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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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